Major contributor of arsenic in animal feed halts practice
- Description
- This press release from the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy and the Center for Food Safety details how the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that Alpharma, a division of the pharmaceutical company Pfizer, has agreed to stop selling (for now) its arsenic-containing product, 3-Nitro, for use in chicken, turkeys and swine. In 1944, 3-Nitro became the first arsenic-containing product approved by the FDA for use in food animals. This ban comes on the heels of a 2009 petition to the FDA calling for a roxarsone ban supported by IATP, the Center for Food Safety and a number of other organizations.
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- Geographic Areas
- National
- Focus area(s)
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- Environmental Health
- Health
- Sustainable Agriculture & Food Systems
- Toxics
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