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. Read full article > >
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Maryland set to ban arsenic-containing drug in chicken feed
The arsenic-in-juice war continues. Today, Consumer Reports released an alarming study that found high levels of arsenic in samples of apple juice. After testing 88 locally-purchased apple and grape juices, testers found 10 percent had total arsenic levels that exceeded federal drinking-water standards, and 25 percent had lead levels higher than the Food and Drug Administration’s bottled-water limit. Read full article > >
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Consumer Reports finds alarming levels of arsenic in apple and grape juices
Two new theories about the life and death of beloved author Jane Austen are in debate: First, that she was potentially the victim of arsenic poisoning; and second, that she would have been all over Twitter and Facebook, had she been alive today. Austen’s early death at the age of 41 has always been a cause for speculation, but crime writer Lindsay Ashford, after reviewing volumes of Austen’s letters, believes that the symptoms the author describes can be attributed to arsenic poisoning . Austen wrote before her death, “I am considerably better now and am recovering my looks a little, which have been bad enough, black and white and every wrong colour.” Ashford, having researched arsenic poisoning for her novels, recognized the symptoms: skin pigmentation of brown, black and white. After she learned that a lock of Austen’s hair on display in a museum tested positive for arsenic, Ashford now believes that the author was given a medicine containing arsenic. Read full article > >
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Jane Austen: Possible arsenic victim, probable blogger
“Poisonous” holy drinking water contaminated with arsenic is being sold to Muslims in London and Luton, a BBC investigation finds.
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‘Poisonous’ holy water sold in UK
The discovery of microbes which thrive in arsenic suggests life on Earth could have arisen more than once – with profound implications for the search for alien life.
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Are alien lifeforms among us?
A paper about a bacterium and arsenic set off a debate about peer review, bloggers and the reliability of NASA.
Researchers said that the bacterium was trained to grow without phosphorus, one of six elements considered essential for life.
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Subsisting on Arsenic, Microbe May Redefine Life
Consumer Reports finds alarming levels of arsenic in apple and grape juices
Wednesday, November 30th, 2011
