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Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica BioMed Central Research Open Access Organic selenium supplementation increased selenium concentrations in ewe and newborn lamb blood and in slaughter lamb meat compared to inorganic selenium supplementation 1 2 3 Arvid Steen* , Turid Strøm and Aksel Bernhoft Address: 1Department of Production Animal Clinical Sciences, Norwegian School of Veterinary Science, P.O. Box 8146 Dep., NO-0033 Oslo, Norway, 2Bioforsk Organic Food and Farming Division, Tingvoll gard, NO-6630 Tingvoll, Norway and 3Department of Toxicology, National Veterinary Institute, Box 8156 Dep., NO-0033 Oslo, Norway Email: Arvid Steen* - arvid.steen@veths.no; Turid Strøm - turid.strom@bioforsk.no; Aksel Bernhoft - aksel.bernhoft@vetinst.no * Corresponding author Published: 31 March 2008 Received: 3 September 2007 Accepted: 31 March 2008 Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2008, 50:7 doi:10.1186/1751-0147-50-7 This article is available from: /content/50/1/7 © 2008 Steen et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: Selenium is part of the antioxidant defence system in animals and humans. The available selenium concentration in soil is low in many regions of the world. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of organic versus ino