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 1997.

 

Monitoring Programs 1997

Hormonal residues

 

Number of samples

Total
Positive
%
Negative

Random research at farm
5142
68
1.3
5074

Directed research at farm
3540
195
5.5
3345

 

Number of inspections at farm

Total
Positive
%
Negative

Random inspections
990
31
3.1
959

Directed inspections
179
34
18.9
145

 

Farms in wich residues of banned compounds were found

Total
31

1 product
28

2 products and more
3

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

[Monitoring Programs]