FDA: Your Chicken Dinner Might Include a Little Arsenic
By: Becky Bracken
Published: June 11, 2011

A new study revealed that a certain feed given to chickens contains arsenic, which then ends up in chicken meat in the food supply, according to the FDA. But don't worry, the FDA is stressing the amounts of arsenic are too tiny to make anyone ill. But still, arsenic? Sounds pretty bad. 
Pfizer, the company that makes the feed, said it will ban the sale of the feed in the US. The FDA said it should be banned outright because it's a carcinogen. 
Pfizer still sells the arsenic-laced feed to about a dozen other countries, and officials are talking to authorities in those countries to determine how to move forward and whether they will sell the feed on an individual basis. 
The feed was initially created to kill parasites and promote chicken growth.