If you eat any kind of fast food and also claim to live a “drug-free” lifestyle, you are fooling yourself.
New research shows that fast food, including “healthier” kinds like Chipotle and In-N-Out, may contain trace amounts of pharmaceutical drugs, including animal antibiotics and contraceptives.
Back in September, Moms Across America (MAA) submitted food samples from 10 of the most popular American food chains to the Health Research Institute (HRI) for testing.
HRI is an Iowa-based nonprofit laboratory that tests food for nutritional value, bio-functionality, contaminants, and toxins, while MAA exists to bring awareness to food that contains genetically modified organisms (GMOs), pesticides, and other toxic ingredients.
Volunteers collected food samples from McDonald’s, Subway, Chick-fil-A, Burger King, Taco Bell, Chipotle, Dunkin’, Wendy’s, Domino’s, and In-N-Out. In total, they collected 42 samples from various locations of these popular brands.
With the exception of Chipotle and Subway, all of the food samples tested positive for veterinary drugs, though all contaminants were below 2 micrograms per kilogram (mcg/kg), which is below what the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) considers a safe threshold.
Stick with clean, drug-free meat and other foods prepared at home to avoid these fast food poisons
The three animal antibiotics discovered in the food samples include monensin, narasin, and nicarbazin. They were all found in very low concentrations.
Less than 0.5 mcg/kg of monensin was detected in food samples from Taco Bell, Dunkin’, Wendy’s, Domino’s, Burger King, and McDonald’s – the “acceptable” daily intake of monensin is said to be 12.5 mcg/kg of body weight per day.
Less than 2 mcg/kg of narasin was detected in a Wendy’s cheeseburger, as well as trace amounts detected in samples from Dunkin’, Domino’s, and a Starbucks sandwich.
Less than 0.5 mcg/kg of nicarbazin was detected in a Chick-fil-A chicken sandwich – the acceptable daily intake of nicarbazin is 200 mcg/kg of body weight per day.
As to what each of these drugs does to the human body, monensin can cause anorexia, diarrhea, weakness, and motor problems – overdoses have slowly poisoned and even killed cattle.
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