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Additional Inspections Find More Residual Drugs In Slaughtered Farm Animals
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by oppknx | November 19, 2008 at 08:27 am
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) conducted an investigation of Red Arrow Dairy located at 69444 County Road 687 in Hartford, MI 49057, and found Red Arrow offered for sale an animal for slaughter as food that was adulterated.
United States Department of Agriculture, Food Safety and Inspection Service (USDA/FSIS) analysis of tissue samples collected from a bob veal calf identified the presence of flunixin at 0.151 parts per million (ppm) in liver tissue. Analysis of tissue samples also identified the presence of 0.13 ppm of penicillin in the kidney.
There is no FDA established tolerance for residues of flunixin or penicillin in the edible tissues of calves to be processed as veal. Flunixin is a FDA regulated veterinarian drug used to alleviate fevers and pain.
The investigation also found that Red Arrow held animals under conditions that are so inadequate that medicated animals bearing potentially harmful drug residues were likely to enter the food supply.
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at 08:38 on November 19th, 2008
Most meat inspection in North America look at the meat Muscles and not the fat, drugs and chemicals stay stored in the fat even when not detectable any longer in the muscle they do remain in the fat and most drugs and chemicals will be consumed since they never leave the animal fat or only if the animal would be of the drugs before slaughter for 16 Month and not the required 30 to 60 days as is the case today.
at 12:06 on November 19th, 2008
Let's hope the bad publicity regarding Red Arrow Dairy will put them out of business. Thanks for the update.