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On 15 January 2015, MSN republished a Parent Society article entitled Finally! The FDA Admits That Nearly Over 70% of U.S. Chickens Contain Cancer-Causing Arsenic. This article circulated widely following its republication on a well-trafficked, popular website and caused widespread concern on social media sites about the current safety of commercially produced chicken products. According to the article, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration had recently announced nearly over 70% [sic] of chicken sold for human consumption in the United States contained a known carcinogen, arsenic: The first paragraph of that article stated an FDA announcement regarding arsenic in chicken had been reported in the news a few days ago, but in fact that news had been reported several years earlier (as related in an 8 June 2011 Wall Street Journal piece, Pfizer to Stop Sale of Animal Drug, linked from that article). What was reported at the time was that a single study of 100 chickens had found chickens who ate feed containing Roxarsone (an arsenic-containing additive used to kill parasites and promote growth) did not eliminate as much inorganic arsenic through waste as previously thought and therefore had higher levels of inorganic arsenic in their livers than chickens who had not been fed Roxarsone. Although the FDA stressed the amount [of arsenic] is too tiny to be dangerous to people who eat it, Pfizer, the manufacturer of Roxarsone, announced it would discontinue sales of that feed additive: The FDA clarified its decision at length on their web site back in 2011, long prior to the January 2015 circulation of the rumor:
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