Hardly a week goes by without the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) handing out an official warning to an American dairy farmer about the overdose of antibiotics in
A dairy cow from a farm near Petaluma, CA was sold for slaughter as food with antibiotic levels in its edible tissues high enough to consider the meat adulterated.
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After what they said was the discovery of excessive antibiotics in some U.S. and European pork, Russian officials announced a ban on imports from two Smithfield processing facilities and
Last week, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academies released the workshop summary from its Forum on Microbial Threats. The summary, entitled “Antibiotic Resistance: Implications for Global Health
An upstate New York dairy farm is selling bob veal calves with levels of the antibiotics Tetracycline and Penicillin in their edible tissues at levels that are higher than allowed
The issue of whether antibiotics used to treat Shiga toxin-producing E. coli increase the risk of the hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) has been a vexing one. But beyond E. coli,
Al Almanza, the top administrator at the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service, was quoted Monday in Food Chemical News saying that misuse of Ivermectin,
A Pennsylvania diary farm has agreed to keep illegal drug residues out of animals sold for human consumption.
The H.B . Williams Inc. dairy farm, located near Kingsley, PA, has
The Singapore Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority suspended sales from the N&N Agriculture Farm after a routine July 17 inspection found residue of the antibiotic doxycycline in the eggs.
The Northwest Side hospital in Chicago is one of 300 across the nation that have pledged to improve the quality and sustainability of the food served for the health of
With the nation’s dairy herd standing at about nine million head, any postmortem sampling of the edible tissues of single animals are anecdotal at best.
But every week, the
Dairy farms in Wisconsin and Washington state received warning letters in June about alleged abuse of animal drugs, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has disclosed.
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