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Article: Claims for drug-free milk not proven. (drug contamination of milk supply from antibiotics and sulfa drugs administered to cattle)
- Article from:
- Nutrition Health Review
- Article date:
- January 1, 1991
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Washington, D.C.: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA), cannot substantiate its claims that milk is drug-free, and safe to drink, another government agency has charged.
The General Accounting Office (GAO), the investigative arm of Congress, has accused the FDA of conducting too limited a survey to support its claims that retail milk isn't contaminated with unsafe levels of antibiotics administered to cattle.
The GAO characterized the surveys as statistically worthless, presenting "at best, snapshots in time" of a small number of milk samples tested for the presence of a small number of drug residues."
The GAO also criticized the FDA for not ...