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The electrolyte drink is banned in Europe because it contains a handful of outlawed ingredients including brominated vegetable oil, Yellow 5 and 6, and Red 40, all of which have been linked to ...
Poultry from 43 farms was destroyed. Nitrofurans are banned from food because of concerns including a possible increased risk of cancer in humans through long-term consumption. [44] 2004 – Organic free-range chicken was found to contain traces of the banned veterinary drug, nitrofuran. Up to 23 tonnes of affected chicken, originating from a ...
The Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (DRAP) issued three alerts between January and March over high levels of ethylene glycol (EG), an industrial solvent known to be toxic, found in drums ...
The World Health Organization (WHO) is addressing the global threat of toxic cough syrups that have caused the deaths of more than 300 children across multiple countries in 2022 and 2023. The WHO is working with six additional countries, bringing the total to 15 countries, to track these dangerous medicines. The WHO team lead said that tainted ...
The manufacturers of the affected products became aware of the contamination but continued to sell it. After the contaminated products were banned in many developed countries, sales were shifted to developing markets. 1982 Chicago Tylenol murders: Tylenol pain-relief capsules were laced with potassium cyanide, leading to seven deaths. [5]
Foods we eat every day are packed with ingredients that could carry nasty, and potentially harmful side effects, yet they're allowed in the United States. These 5 common American foods are banned ...
Many of the chemicals in these foods are already banned in most of Europe, and now several US states are following suit. In October, California passed the so-called Skittles Ban, which outlawed ...
As of 2014, according to the Humane Society, the use of ractopamine was “banned or restricted” in 160 countries, [6] including the European Union, China and Russia, [7] [8] while 27 other countries, such as Japan, the United States, South Korea, and New Zealand have deemed meat from livestock fed ractopamine safe for human consumption. [9 ...