Evidence of a natural origin for banned drug that plumps up livestock
Wednesday, June 15, 2011 - 10:01
in Biology & Nature
There may be a natural solution to the mystery of how small amounts of a banned drug that disrupts thyroid function and plumps up livestock gets into their bodies and the bodies of humans, scientists are reporting. Their study, which appears in ACS' Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, reports the first evidence that the substance can form naturally in feed and food.