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FDA to revoke approval of drug used to treat certain diseases in pigs

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On Friday, the US Food and Drug Administration panel of experts 
decided to cancel approval of a drug used for the treatment of 
certain diseases in pigs. The move has been announced because 
the medication can possibly leave behind a cancerous residue 
that could affect human health after consumption of pork, 
especially pork liver.

The agency said that the drug, carbadox, is a product by 
Teaneck, New Jersey-based Phibro Animal Health and is consumed 
to control swine dysentery and bacterial enteritis. Approved in 
1972, the drug has also been given to help weight gain among 
pigs.

In a statement, the U.S. FDA said, “Potential cancer risks are 
based on an assumed lifetime of consuming pork liver or other 
pork products containing carbadox residues”. The agency added 
that it hasn’t suggested people to alter their food choices 
while it is taking efforts for the removal of the drug from the 
market.

The agency said that pork is rich in protein, but protein can 
also consumed from other things like meat, beans and peas, eggs, 
poultry, seafood, nuts and seeds and many others.

It said that pork liver is used for making hot dogs, liverwurst, 
lunch meat and a few kinds of sausage. The product sale is done 
under the brand name Mecadox.

Phibro officials have claimed that the product is safe. Phibro 
said in a statement that Mecadox has been allowed and sold in 
the United States for over four decades and is a broadly-used 
treatment to control bacterial diseases.

According to Dave Warner, a spokesman for the Pork Producers 
Council, which is the representative of the pork industry, said 
that it was studying the effects the FDA decision will have but 
is going to allow the Animal Health Institute, representative of 
animal health drug companies, ‘take the lead’.

In a report published by the WSJ, "The U. S. Food and Drug 
Administration on Friday moved to withdraw its approval of a 
drug used to treat pigs because of concerns that it could leave 
traces of a cancerous residue in pork."

"The manufacturer of carbadox has failed to provide sufficient 
scientific data to demonstrate the safety of this drug given 
evidence that carbadox may result in carcinogenic residues," 
said Michael Taylor, the FDA's deputy commissioner for foods and 
veterinary medicine.

According to a report in Reuters by Toni Clarke, "The U. S. Food 
and Drug Administration on Friday moved to revoke approval of a 
drug used to treat certain diseases in pigs because it could 
leave a cancerous residue that may affect human health. The 
drug, carbadox, is made by Teaneck, New Jersey-based Phibro 
Animal Health and is used to control swine dysentery and 
bacterial enteritis, the agency said. The drug, which was 
approved in
1972, has also been used to promote weight gain in pigs."

"Potential cancer risks are based on an assumed lifetime of 
consuming pork liver or other pork products containing carbadox 
residues," the agency said in a statement, adding that it is not 
recommending that people change their food choices while it 
works to remove the drug from the market. "Pork is a good source 
of protein," the agency said. "However, protein can also be 
found in other meat, poultry, seafood, beans and peas, eggs, 
processed soy products, nuts and seeds."

"The Food and Drug Administration proposed banning an antibiotic 
used to fatten up pigs for slaughter, saying the company that 
makes it hasn't proved it cannot cause cancer in people," 
according to a news report published by NBCNEWS.

The antibiotic, carbadox, is one of many used in farm animals. 
The federal government and consumer groups want farmers to stop 
using them to fatten animals because their heavy use is helping 
spread antibiotic-resistant superbugs. But that's not what 
worried FDA about carbadox.

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