{"id":6834,"date":"2018-06-27T11:11:50","date_gmt":"2018-06-27T09:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phytocontrol.com\/?p=6834"},"modified":"2018-06-27T11:11:50","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T09:11:50","slug":"efsa-report-2016-veterinary-residues-and-other-substances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phytocontrol.com\/en\/regulatory-watch\/efsa-report-2016-veterinary-residues-and-other-substances\/","title":{"rendered":"EFSA Report 2016 veterinary residues and other substances"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"hover_box\"><div class=\"hover_box_wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"scale-with-grid visible_photo\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Aiguille-viande-400-700.jpg\" alt=\"EFSA Report 2016 veterinary residues and other substances\" width=\"\" height=\"\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"scale-with-grid hidden_photo\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/actu_publication-rasff-2016_02.jpg\" alt=\"EFSA Report 2016 veterinary residues and other substances\" width=\"\" height=\"\"\/><\/div><\/div>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>EFSA has published its report on the year 2016 of monitoring results for residues of veterinary medicinal products and unauthorised substances in live animals and products of animal origin.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 710839 samples were checked by 27 Member States. The non-compliance rate for 2016 was 0.31%, comparable to the previous 9 years (0.25% -0.37%).<\/p>\n<p>The presence of unauthorised substances and residues of veterinary medicinal products in food is a risk factor for public health.<\/p>\n<p>Three main EU texts govern the rules applicable to veterinary residues and prohibited substances:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Regulation (EU) No 37\/2010 sets maximum residue limits for veterinary medicinal products in food-producing animals and products of animal origin.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Regulation No 396\/2005 sets maximum residue limits for pesticides in food and feed of plant and animal origin.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Directive 96\/23\/EC lays down measures for the monitoring of certain substances and residues thereof, mainly veterinary medicinal products, in live animals and animal products.<\/p>\n<p>The products analysed for 2016 are as follows: cattle, pigs, sheep and goats, horses, poultry, rabbit, farmed game, game, aquaculture, milk, eggs and honey.<\/p>\n<p>For Group A:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; No non-compliant samples were reported for stilbenes and their derivatives (A1)<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; For antithyroid (A2) agents, 0.45% of samples were non-compliant.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; In the steroid group (A3), 0.09% of the samples were considered non-compliant (all for anabolic steroids).<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; In the group of resorcylic acid lactones (A4), 0.14% of the samples were not compliant for zearalanone and its derivatives.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Prohibited substances (A6) were found in 0.03% of the samples. The substances identified were chloramphenicol, nitroimidazoles and nitrofurans.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For Group B:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; For antibacterial agents (B1), 0.17% of samples were non-compliant.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; In group B2 (other veterinary drugs), the highest proportion of non-compliant samples was found for NSAIDs (0.25%).<\/p>\n<p>You can consult the complete regulations at the attached link: Report for 2016<\/p>\n<p>Our laboratory has recently developed an innovative method for the analysis of drug residues on a number of chemical families unrivalled in France.<\/p>\n<p>The laboratory is thus able to detect and quantify a large list of drug residues using a high-performance HPLC-QTOF technique, supplemented with LC-MS\/MS, in a package that also includes Chloramphenicol.<\/p>\n<p>For any technical, pricing or regulatory information, do not hesitate to contact us.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; EFSA has published its report on the year 2016 of monitoring results for residues of veterinary medicinal products and unauthorised substances in live animals<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6831,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-6834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-regulatory-watch"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phytocontrol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phytocontrol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phytocontrol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phytocontrol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phytocontrol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.phytocontrol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phytocontrol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phytocontrol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phytocontrol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phytocontrol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6834"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phytocontrol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=6834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}