USDA to Enhance Consumer Safeguards with Expanded Testing for Illegal Drug Residues in Meat
date:Jul 03, 2012
ample for more chemical compounds than previously possible.

One of the multi-residue methods being implemented for veterinary drugs will allow the Agency to screen for chemical compounds that include several types of legal and illegal drugs such as antibiotics, anti-inflammatories and growth promoters. In the past, FSIS would have collected 300 samples from 300 cows and looked for just one chemical at a time. Under the new system, one sample may be tested for as many as 55 pesticide chemicals,
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