Poultry firms win suit over leukemia

NORTHWEST ARKANSAS TIMES, written by Robert Smith; Posted on Friday, May 15, 2009. Jurors found in favor of poultry companies on trial in Washington County on Thursday. Poultry companies George's Farms, Tyson Foods and Simmons Foods were cleared of charges levied in a suit in which Michael "Blu" Green and his parents alleged exposure to litter from chickens given the arsenic-containing feed additive Roxarsone caused Green's leukemia in the 1990s. It was 9-3 in favor of the defendants. Civil trials do not require unanimous verdicts.