Selenium and cancer

Authors: Wedderburn JF
Publication: New Zealand Veterinary Journal, Volume 20, Issue 4, pp 56-57, Apr 1972
Publisher: Taylor and Francis

Animal type: Livestock
Subject Terms: Diet/rations/food, Neoplasia, Oncology, Nutrition/metabolism, Selenium, Trace elements
Article class: Correspondence

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Abstract: lnfortnation issued to practising veterinarians in this country at the time of the introduction of selenium for the control of white muscle disease and some forms of hogget ill-thrift stressed two cautionary points: the first was that the U.S. market had a nil tolerance level for selenium in its meat imports, and the second, that this nil tolerance requirement was based on a suspicion that selenium had a carcinogenic action. From recent correspondence from D. V. Frost of Vermont, ,a research worker in this field, it would appear that both of the above points need updating…

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