National Residue Program

USDA, Domestic Residue Data Book, Food Safety and Inspection Service, National Residue Program, Washington, D.C., 1992 pubHshed aimuaHy. General References... 

Since 1967 FSIS has conducted the National Residue Program to help prevent the marketing of animals and poultry containing illegal residues of antibiotics, drugs, and other chemicals. 

The National Residue Program operates in three basic modes monitoring, surveillance, and exploratory. 

Table 11.4 Drugs Included in the US National Residue Program from 1972 to 1997 CO... 

In the period 1988-1989, the drug residue profile in edible animal products does not change. Data complied by the FSIS National Residue Program during 1988 showed that chlortetracycline, erytlrromycin, gentamicin, neomycin, oxytetracycline, penicillins, streptomycin, tetracycline, and tylosin were the antibiotics most often present in the samples analyzed (Table 13.3). During the same period. 

In the period 1992-1994, the drugs and groups of drugs screened by the National Residue Program included antibiotics, sulfonamides, ivermectin, halofuginone, levamisole, and morantel tartrate. The microbial assays applied by FSIS for monitoring antibiotics could detect chiortetracyciine, oxytetracycline, tetracy-... 

Table 13.9 Monitoring Program Results of the 1996 National Residue Program in...

USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service Compound Evaluation and Analytical Capability National Residue Program Plan. Brown, J., Ed. USDA FSIS Science Program, Wash. D.C., 1987. p. 4.13... 

Domestic Residue Data Book National Residue Program 1987. United States Department of Agriculture, Food Safety and Inspection Service,U.S. Government Print Office, Washington, DC, 1987. 

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