A beef cow-calf operation is on notice from the Food and Drug Administration because of the presence of three drugs in edible tissue samples collected by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Testing showed residue of
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FDA Warning Letters: Puerto Rico Egg Producer, U.S. Cattle and Dairy Farms
An egg production facility in Puerto Rico was the target of a March 11, 2015, warning letter from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which was only recently made public. 
The letter followed a
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FDA Says Vermont Dairy's Practices Not Yet Fixed
High animal drug residues have been found in the edible tissues of bob veal calves sold for slaughter by a Vermont dairy.
Tissue samples taken after slaughter by the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service
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Antibiotic Drug Warning to Dairies in Three States
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.S. Food and Drug Administration
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Banned Milk Replacers Still Used at PA Dairy Farm
Two Pennsylvania dairy farms were found selling bob veal calves for slaughter with higher than allowed levels of specific animal antibiotics in their edible tissues.
In Feb. 15 warning letters to the Lloyd B. Zimmerman
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Residue Gets in Human Food from Animal Drug Misuse
The Pastime Lakes Dairy located near Lakeview, CA apparently did not get the memo.
Here’s the information Pastime missed:
“Cattle must not be slaughtered for human consumption within 4 days of the last treatment.
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Dairy Sold Two Cows With Too Much Flunixin
George’s Wright Family Dairy, located near Baxley, GA sold two cows last summer for slaughter for use as human food that subsequent tissue sample testing by USDA’S Food Safety and Inspection Service showed were juiced