FSIS conducts tests for chemicals—including antibiotics, sulfonamides, and various other drugs, pesticides and environmental chemicals—in meat, poultry and egg products destined for human consumption. FSIS also conducts studies to determine presence of contaminants such as dioxin.
Same Source Supplier – Residue Violator List …This list contains information to help plant owners and operators as well as inspection personnel identify residue history of livestock suppliers. …Week of Oct 29, 2009 …
http://www.fsis.usda.gov/Science/Chemistry/index.asp
DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE . . . The list for the week of Oct 29, 2009 is 92 pages long and a name recently associated with 21 violations respecting pesticides repeatedly appears … Cargill … but this time without any punitive action … not even a slap on the wrist … but then USDA is today nothing more than a “feel-good” taxpayer funded oversight agency providing CYA to for-profit-corporate-interest$.
Curious about what these residue violations were … well how about … penicillin, sulfadmethoxine, neomycin, flunixin, tetracycline, oxytetracycline, desfuroycleftiofur for starters …
Look’em up, they don’t exactly contribute our human health when we consume them from animal products.
These products of “big-pharma” are prevalent in organs of slaughtered animals especially in their liver and kidneys … the amount passed on to you and me when we consume these animals is not defined nor tested … hey, we don’t want to adversely affect for-profit-corporate-interest$-profit$ … do we…?
… I invite “us” to consider not to shame, blame or criticize but rather simply ask … what would it look like when it’s fixed … and own that ONLY we have the power to bring about the change needed to fix it …
