Harmful chemicals in chicken feed

Depending on the variety, age and cooking use of the chicken, the feed provided to the chicken varies Some components of chicken feed are known to be dangerous and can harm poultry and humans consuming poultry Steroids some chickens feed with steroids, mainly to make the chicken mature faster This is helpful to improve the slaughtering rate and reduce the operating cost by reducing the feed cost However, these hormones will remain in the chicken after slaughter and cooking This means that people who eat chicken also add a certain amount of steroids Roxarsone is an arsenic based chemical added to some chicken feed It is specially designed to resist parasites, increase growth rate and improve meat color Nitrophenol arsonic acid itself is harmless, but when it is ingested by chickens and people, it will turn into toxic arsenic According to the investigation report of the United States, a large number of chickens were fed with nitrophenol arsonic acid It is not clear how it will affect humans Melamine, a chemical used to make plastics, is sometimes added to chicken feed through contaminated wheat products Any feed found to contain melamine should be recalled, and poultry that ingest the chemical should not be sold for human consumption Pesticide grains and seeds are components of chicken feed, and pesticides are chemicals that help crops control pests Pesticide residues can affect feed by contaminating grains.