Word: nitrofuran
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Some of the antibiotics that fish farmers give their stock to minimize disease pass easily into the surrounding environment, and some are highly toxic. Last year traces of the banned drug nitrofuran, which is dangerous to humans, were found by European Union inspectors in shrimp from Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam. According to Wang Sihe, an expert with the Jiangsu Seawater Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese shrimp farms have mixed fish food with antibiotics and dumped it into fish ponds. Chloramphenicol, an antibiotic that can cause fatal anemia in humans, has also been used...
...Researchers at the State University of Iowa seem to have found the perfect contraceptive-for rats. While they were fed nitrofuran compounds (chemicals obtained from oat hulls), male rats produced no spermatozoa, Dr. Warren 0. Nelson reported, but later they recovered their fertility and sired normal young. The University of Texas' Dr. Donald Duncan, edging out on a limb, said nitrofuran "could be the [human] contraceptive of the future...
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