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Article: Cows on drugs? (antibiotic residues in milk)
- Article from:
- Nutrition Action Healthletter
- Article date:
- April 1, 1990
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Cows on Drugs?
Dairy cows get sick. It's a fact of life. Dairy cows also are worth money. So when they become ill, farmers want to get them back "on line" as quickly as possible.
Most of the time, that means treating the cow with an antibiotic or other drug and then waiting a few days or a week until the residues of the medication "clear" the animal's system.
But not all farmers wait as long as they should. (For some drugs, nobody even knows how long to wait.)
So how can we be certain that drug residues haven't somehow found their way into the container of milk we just bought?
Don't ask the Food and Drug Administration. The ...