If you have been reading about findings concerning meats and drugs, you may know about a recent report telling of a lack of recalls for medications found in testing. If not, this article gives a short description of that report. We try to keep up on these findings through industry and advocacy releases; but reading this particular article brought things very close to home; at first, this article looks like something we all ready were aware of; "A new Office of Inspector General (OIG) report released last month finds the USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) fails to test for many drugs in cattle, inadequately tests for others and fails to recall meat which is clearly contaminated.
"Between July 12, 2007, and March 11, 2008, FSIS found that four carcasses were adulterated with violative levels of veterinary drugs and that the plants involved had released the meat into the food supply. Although the drugs involved could result in stomach, nerve, or skin problems for consumers, FSIS requested no recall," says the report."
But, if you read down further, there are examples from more recent FDA April inspection letters.
I have to say that I don't always agree with the writings of Martha Rosenberg, the author of this article, but she is citing a credible source and so I offer the link here realizing that knowledge promotes change.
http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2010/06/03/government-report-finds-dangerous-residues-in-meat/
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Steve Hoad
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