Fast Food Loaded With Antibiotics, Hormones, Heavy Metals, but Few Nutrients

Disturbing discoveries of an unconventional medication raise questions about fast food ingredients. The FDA's acceptable levels are only meaningful for acute poisoning, not the accumulation of toxins.

STORY AT-A-GLANCE

• Most chain restaurants rely on beef and chicken from concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs), where veterinary drugs are routinely used, and of 10 fast food meals sampled and tested, all but two tested positive for veterinary drugs

• Six of the 10 fast food samples (Taco Bell, Dunkin', Wendy’s, Domino's, Burger King and McDonald's) …