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n. - Derivative of furan used to inhibit bacterial growth.

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  • Use of nitrofuran in food animals was largely banned world-wide by 2002.
  • Canada said it started inspecting all shipments of Chinese shrimp for the antibiotic nitrofuran in September 2006, and the first three shipments from Guolian passed...
  • Specifically, through targeted sampling from October 2006 through May 2007, the FDA repeatedly found that farm-raised seafood from China contained antimicrobial agents not...
  • They include many human antibiotics, penicillins and some names I recognise from the bad days of the European fish-farming industry -- nitrofuran, chloramphenicol and...
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