date:Aug 30, 2012
Nitrofurazone has the potential to cause cancer in humans, and is banned from use in food-producing animals in the UK and the EU. Semicarbazide (SEM) is a metabolite of nitrofurazone and is a marker for the illegal use of nitrofurazone in food-producing animals.
In 2010, SEM was detected in samples of Scottish heather honey from hives that were unlikely to have been treated with nitrofurazone. This indicated that SEM may have originated from some other currently-unidentified source.
To determine