Tags: Chemical Compound, Chemical Substance.
Roxarsone is an organoarsenic compound that is widely used in poultry production as a feed additive to increase weight gain and improve feed efficiency and as a coccidiostat. The drug is also approved in the United States for use in pigs. Roxarsone is marketed as 3-Nitro by Zoetis a publicly traded subsidiary of Pfizer. In 2006 approximately one million kilograms of roxarsone were produced in the U.S.Roxarsone is one of four arsenical animal drugs approved by the U.S.
