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Not so....
Ammonium sulphamate is considered to be slightly toxic to humans and animals, making it appropriate for amateur home garden, professional and forestry uses. It is generally accepted to be safe for use on plots of land that will be used for growing fruit and vegetables intended for consumption.
It is considered to be environmentally friendly due to its degradation to non-harmful residues.
The pesticides review by the European Union led to herbicides containing ammonium sulphamate becoming unlicensed, and therefore effectively banned, from 2008. This situation arose as the Irish Rapporteur refused to review the data supplied unless it contained details of animal testing on dogs. As there was already substantial animal data within the package supplied the data pack holder felt further tests without substantiation would cause unnecessary animal suffering. Its licence was not withdrawn on grounds of safety or efficacy.
Its availability and use as a compost accelerator is unaffected by the EU's pesticide legislation.
The data iv seen is from the ppde psd one government one university clearly not as accurate as the tin foil wearers of wiki, ASS ahas poor scoring for mobility in groundwater , which all leads to a poor score on environmental pollution.... No product will get a new licence under such grounds, high leaching potential no approval. I think its unlikely a dead dog was ever requested as the failure of the product was nailed by its environmental score.
Milk is pretty harmless to most things, discharge a 1000snd lts upstream of an intake and its not, the six figure fine tells you how much it costs to clear up..... just because something has low toxicology it still doesn't mean it will receive an approval because scoring takes 50+ factors into consideration.