Dairy farms in Kentucky, California, Kansas, and New Mexico are among latest to run afoul of federal regulations limiting antibiotic residues in cattle sold for slaughter as human food.
Each
A leading soccer association in Latin America has suspended five players in Mexico for failing drug tests. The players insist they unknowingly consumed beef containing banned-drug clenbuterol.
The players were
A commonly used animal drug is being suspended from sale in response to new U.S. Food and Drug Administration data showing it increases arsenic levels in chicken livers.
Though
Five years after the European Union banned antibiotics in animal feed, South Korea is about to become the first Asian country to embrace such a restriction.
Beginning in July, South
The Walnut Cheese Company of Illinois, doing business as Avanti Foods, is recalling some mozzarella cheese products because they may contain beta-lactam antibiotic residues.
In a news release, the Illinois
A warning letter for the misuse of the widely used animal antibiotic Neomycin was sent on May 9 to Minnesota’s Saemrow Dairy in Waterville by the U.S. Food
The consumer advocacy groups that went to court this week in an attempt to take non-therapeutic antibiotics away from animal agriculture ignored science, failed to cite any data and did
Drug residue found in veal calves after slaughter should be further investigated on the farms where they were raised, said the Center for Science in the Public Interest Wednesday in
Warning letters on March 25, March 28, and April 6 put dairy farms in California, Idaho and Wisconsin on notice about misuse of animal antibiotics.
In each case, the U.
Feed Additive Remains Sticking Point in Beef Dispute; Key Ag Senators Press Taiwan, Declaring U.S. Beef Safe
The two top Senators on the Agriculture Committee, Ranking Member Pat Roberts
The U.S. Department of Agriculture Tuesday moved toward mandating test-and-hold in the meat and poultry industry, a policy change aimed at reducing the amount of unsafe food that reaches
Used for horses and cattle in the U.S., for dogs in some countries and even for elephants in others, flunixin meglumine is a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory agent.
Flunixin meglumine comes