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Nitrofuran

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Nitrofuran
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Nitrofurans are a class of drugs typically used as antibiotics or antimicrobials.[1] The defining structural component is a furan ring with a nitro group.[2]

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Nitrofural (nitrofurazone)
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Nifuratel

Drugs

Members of this class of drugs include:

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Regulation

The European Union has banned the use of Nitrofurans in food-producing animals. In the 2000s, a number of meat imports were destroyed after nitrofurans were found, including chicken imported from Portugal,[4] and chicken imported from Thailand and Brazil.[5]

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