More than a dozen popular UK brands have pledged to drop some milk products over fears they are ‘contaminated’ with cancer-linked additives.
Consumers say they are avoiding milk and butter made by Denmark’s Arla after it announced a trial involving feeding cows a feed supplement called Bovair.
In the list, which is now being circulated widely on social media, consumers are advised to avoid Lurpak and Anker Butter – both manufactured by the company.
Others include partnerships with major supermarkets such as Arla Foods Tesco And Asda which stocks its own brand of milk supplied by Arla.
Introduced to cattle feed, Bovair is designed to reduce the amount of methane produced during digestion, which contributes to gas. Climate change.
But it has been declared a safe additive by both European and UK regulators as it does not enter milk.
They have experts He also told MailOnline. Customers have nothing to worry about and their concerns about cancer risks are unfounded.
However, social media is now abuzz with claims the supplement could bring. Fertility issues and Cancer.
In one Tik Tok video that has been viewed thousands of times, a user spills Arla’s milk from the sink and says, ‘Arla is not in my house.’
The viral list shared on X and Facebook warns customers against buying Arla and its sub-brands Arla Cravendale, Arla BOB, Arla Protein and Arla Lactofree.
Artisanal cheese brand Castello, Apetina – which sells white cheese and paneer – and Arla Organic are others blacklisted.
It also alerts consumers to brands partnered with Arla Foods, including Starbucks, McDonald’s and Ecomilk.
Arla says it produces ready-to-eat iced coffee drinks for Starbucks, as well as milk products for McDonald’s.
Almost all major supermarkets have also been attacked by shoppers and are included in the list.
They say this is because Arla Foods produces products such as milk and cheese for its own brands such as Asda. Other supermarkets stock Arla food products.
Since the list began circulating, many Britons have taken to it. Tiktok To share clips of themselves pouring milk products down the toilet and throwing them in the trash.
In one video, which has been viewed more than 1.6 million times, a man points to a bottle of Asda semi-skimmed milk that bears the label ‘sourced from Arla Farms’.
TikTokers have shared videos of themselves throwing food products in the trash.
One man pictured himself with Arla products, telling followers they would ‘go straight down the drain’.
He added: “This is going straight down the drain and I will never buy Asda milk again.”
Bovaire is a compound made from silicon dioxide, propylene glycol, and the organic compound 3-nitrooxypropanol, also known as 3-nitrooxypropanol, or shortened to 3-NOP.
Concerns circulating online about the supplement mostly refer to documents from regulators about industrial levels of the substance.
In the US, one of the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) states that the product is not for human use.
He adds: ‘Care should be taken when handling this product. 3-nitrooxypropanol can harm the male reproductive system, can be harmful if inhaled, and is a skin and eye irritant.’
He then recommends that those handling it wear protective equipment such as eye and mouth masks and gloves.
It claims to bring the cancer center to bear on safety studies conducted on rats and reviewed by the UK regulator Food Standards Agency.
The results indicated that feeding high doses of the product to rats increased the risk of cancer in female rats.
In one Tik Tok video, a user with more than 4,000 followers pours milk from a cardboard box down the drain.
Another Tik Tok video posted yesterday captured a woman emptying her Arla bottle before going to the toilet.
However, in the follow-up analysis, the levels of the disease were not statistically higher than the control group.
Bouvier manufacturer Dism-Firmenich said the social media storm had led to ‘mistrust and misinformation’ about the food.
In a statement, they assured the public that, if ‘used as recommended’, Bovaire would ‘never enter milk and reach consumers’.
Furthermore, the additive is ‘specially formulated to break down in the cow’s digestive system and quickly into the natural compounds found in the cow’s rumen,’ adds the Dutch Swiss international.
Bouvier’s product safety sheet advises people to wear masks and gloves when handling the supplement to avoid risks from ‘small dust particles’.
But this is a ‘standard sheet’ designed for on-going workers, Dsm-firmenich pointed out.
This ‘ensures safe use’ and ‘such procedures are very common for consumption’.
A spokesperson for the UK’s Food Standards Agency told MailOnline: ‘Feeds used to reduce methane emissions are fed to bouvaires and are safe to drink from cow’s milk.
Great Yarmouth’s Reform MP Rupert Lowe joined the debate this afternoon to boycott the products.
‘Bovaer has undergone rigorous safety assessments and is approved for use in Great Britain.’
The claim that the product is related to Bill Gates has also confused some social media users and created a storm.
of Microsoft Co-founder As early as 2023, it has invested 8 million in Rumin to develop similar methane-reducing supplements.
Conspiracy theorists have falsely linked the two organizations without evidence.
Responding to the claims, an Arla spokesperson said: “The information circulating online about our relationship with Bill Gates is completely false and the information about his involvement in our products is incorrect.”
He added: “The health and safety of both consumers and animals is always our top priority.
Bovair has already been used widely and safely throughout Europe, and since it does not enter the milk from the cow at any time during the experiment, it has no effect on the milk we produce.
‘Regulatory bodies such as the European Food Safety Authority (FSA) and the FSA approve it based on evidence that it does not harm animals or adversely affect their health, productivity and milk quality.’
A Bower spokesman added: ‘This was developed in response to the need to reduce methane emissions.
The cow metabolizes it as an additional food – this means it is not in the milk.
It has been tested for many years in many countries; It is completely safe and approved by regulators in Britain, America and many other countries.
‘There is no justification for the spread and amplification of this fake news. We are scientists, we work on facts and we will never sell an unsafe product.
We are grateful to the independent, third-party experts, farmers and farmers’ organizations who have stepped up to counter this misinformation.’
