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Playing Chicken with Arsenic

By Deborah Blum
Posted: June 10, 2011
Category: arsenic, consumer protection, Speakeasy Science | Tagged A Reliable Wife, Alpharma, arsenic, Arsenic and Old Lace, arsenic trioxide, Bangladesh, Dorothy Sayers, FDA, Mary Ann Cotton, poultry feed, roxarsone, Strong Poison, The Los Angeles Times, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, white arsenic | Leave a comment
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