Maryland set to ban arsenic-containing drug in chicken feed Washington Post At his family farm on Maryland's Eastern Shore, Lee Richardson raises thousands of chickens from fuzzy hatchlings to the juicy broilers stacked at grocery stores far and wide. Like a lot of farmwork, this seems simple, but it's not.
Why Maryland is banning a chicken drug Washington Post By becoming the first state to ban a common chicken-feed additive, Maryland hopes to block several paths through which additional arsenic could enter the food chain. Read related article. Harry R. Hughes Center for Agro-Ecology; Del.