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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8179

25 March 2002
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/food security
Commission proposes to prohibit last remaining antibiotics from animal feed in 2006

Brussels, 25/03/2002 (Agence Europe) - On Monday the European Commission presented proposals to phase out by 2006 the authorisations of the four antibiotic feed additives that can still be sued in animal feed (for poultry and pigs) as growth promoters (monensin sodium, salinomycin sodium, avilamycin and flavophospholipol) and to introduce a simplified and more binding new procedure for authorising the marketing of new additives for animal feed, on the basis of maximum residue levels...

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