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OFF
Also FREE TRUCKING Thru
Month of December
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Dairy Cows Culled For Residues
Cull dairy cows arc prime
ingredients for many
processed meat products.
But what you do to get them
to market could well
determine whether you get a
good return from these cows
or whether they get con
demned during inspection.
The U.S, Department of
Agriculture (USDA) is
concerned about your cull
cows. The Veterinary Ser
vices Staff of USDA’s
Animal and Plant Health
Inspection Service (APHIS)-
-through its market cattle
testing program-is looking
for herds infected with such
diseases as tuberculosis and
brucellosis. That same
Agency’s Meat and Poultry
Inspection Program is in
terested in the
wholesomeness of the meat
derived from these animals.
Many dairymen are
thoroughly familiar with the
animal disease programs.
However, they may not be as
familiar with Meat In
spection. Yet the latter is
equally important to the
return they may get from
their culls.
Every cow shipped for
slaughter in a federally
inspected plant is examined
prior to daughter by a USDA
veterinarian or his trained
assistant. Only normal
appearing cows are passed
for slaughter. Cows found to
be unfit for human food are
condemned on the spot and
are not allowed to enter the
daughter plant.
Cows behaving ab
normally or showing signs of
clinical disease are treated
as “suspects” and given
special attention by the
inspectors. Such cows are
held'tack and slaughtered
separately.
On these cows, especially,
the inspectors look for in
jection sites or other signs
that may indicate that the
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They farm part time, and hold down a city job too.
We make loans to these people, the same as we do to full-
time farmers. Loans on anything to make farming easier, and
pay better.
Our interest rates are the lowest possible, our terms the
longest around, and we’ll go out of our way to help you.
You see, we know how farming can get in your blood.
Because we grew up on farms ourselves,
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animal has been treated
recently with a drug or
antibiotic that might leave a
residue. Samples or muscle
or organ tissue arc taken for
laboratory analysis if visual
inspection is inconclusive.
All carcasses are in
spected Individually after
slaughter. Internal organs
and glands are examined for
signs of disease, injury,
contamination or other
unwholesome condition.
If the inspector is unable to
determine whether the meat
is wholesome, he will send
samples to one of the USDA
laboratories for testing. The
suspect carcass, in the
meantime, is retained until
results of the laboratory
tests are obtained.
Carcasses that pass in
spection are stamped with
the official "U.S. Inspected
and Passed” mark. Car
casses or parts that do not
pass inspection are kept
under strict control of the
inspector to be destroyed or
treated to show that they are
obviously unfit for human
food.
In the case of cows
diowing signs of mastitis,
the usual procedure is to
condemn the udder and pass
the remainder of the carcass
if no systemic changes are
found. This procedure may
change, a nationwide survey
of such cows conducted last
year diowed that almost one
third of those samples had
antibiotic residues in their
kidneys.
The antibiotic residue
program is conducted by
USDA to help assure the
wholesomeness of our food
supply. When above
tolerance residues are found,
the test results, portions of
the sample and toe name and
address of the owner of the
animals involved are turned
over to the Pood and Drug
Administration (FDA). FDA
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has legal authority over feed
additives and drugs.
But USDA action does not
stop when FDA is notified.
APHIS requires proof of
compliance for all future
animals from a herd prior to
daughter if residues have
been found in any animal
slaughtered from that herd.
All test conducted to prove
that no other animals con
tain violative residues are at
the expense of the herd
owner. This testing con
tinues until APHIS is sure
that the residue problem in
the herd has been solved.
Testing for antibiotics is a
simple yet complex and
exacting job as carried out
by USDA laboratory per
sonnel.
It is simplc-A sample is
placed in contact with
growing bacteria. If the
bacteria are prevented from
growing, an antimicrobial
agent is present.
It is complex and exacting
-Samples are taken of many
tissues and are handled
carefully to prevent con
tamination. They must be
frozen and rushed to the
laboratory. Several different
bacteria must be kept on
hand at the laboratory in
order to differentiate among
a variety of antibacterial
substance Many antibiotics
have specific inhibitory
effects on certain bacteria.
What do these tests reveal
-The tests will show whether
any antibiotic residue is
present in the sample. Most
of the time, the test will show
which antibiotic or com
bination of antibiotics has
been used on the animal
prior to slaughter. And, the
tests will show how much
antiobiotic residue is in the
tissue-a good indication of
how soon before slaughter
the animal was treated.
Inspectors take samples
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