STANDARDIZATION OF HORMONE AND VETERINARY DRUG RESIDUE ANALYSIS IN ANIMAL PRODUCTS

Scientific Support Plan for a Sustainable Development Policy.
Standards for Foodproducts.

 Monitoring programs: data obtained from the Veterinary Inspection Service of the Ministry of Agriculture (Belgium) for 1996.

 

Monitoring Programs 1996

Hormonal residues

 

Number of samples

Total

Positive

%

Negative

Random research at farm

8221

34

0.4

8187

Directed research at farm

3890

248

6.4

3642

 

Number of inspections at farm

Total

Positive

%

Negative

Random inspections

1529

22

1.4

1507

Directed inspections

213

22

10.3

191

 

Farms in wich residues of banned compounds were found

Total

45

1 product

41

2 products

4

3 products and more

0

 

Products found in positive samples

Stilbenes
Thyreostatics

Androgens
Estrogens
Progestogens*

b2 agonists
Glucocorticoids

Random research

0

2

28

Directed research

0

7

35

* 192 animals were positive for banned compounds with oestrogenic, androgenic and gestagenic action and these animals were destroyed

[Monitoring Programs]