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Day 4 | World Antibiotic Awareness Week – Meat
Meat/Tissue It’s day four of World Antibiotic Awareness Week 2018. Here at Randox Food Diagnostics, we provide innovative technologies for the detection and quantification of antibiotic residues in meat through tissue, urine… -
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German Antibiotic Sales Dropped
Randox Food Diagnostics recently reported how the European Parliament’s new antibiotic legislation bans the use of antibiotics on animals that are important for human medicine use and prohibits any antimicrobials in livestock… -
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Ractopamine Detection in Meat
Ractopamine was first developed as a treatment for asthma but was never approved according to Consumer Reports. Research later uncovered that when added to animal feed prior to slaughter, ractopamine could increase… -
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Test for Multiple Antimicrobials in Shrimp
Originally beginning in Southeast Asia, shrimp farming has now become widespread throughout Asia and Latin America. Historically harvested from the wild, shrimp are now mainly reared in aquaculture facilities due to a… -
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Meat Testing for Growth Promoters
A recent article by New Food magazine has reported that UK government ministers may be willing to sacrifice food standards for post Brexit trade agreements with non-EU states such as the USA.… -
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Benefits to the trade of food products between the EU and Japan – EPA
The recent EU-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) will now make it easier for EU food companies to access Japans large customer base by eliminating and cutting tariffs. Agricultural imports will see the… -
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Feed Testing in the Meat Industry – Challenges and Solutions
The global meat industry is a multi-billion-dollar business contributing over $85 billion to the US economy alone annually. Globally it is valued at $800 billion and as such, it is one of… -
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Testing for Growth Promoters in Food Products
The use and testing of growth promoting hormones in food producing animals has been a longstanding topic of discussion within the food industry. The prevalence of this conversation has largely been due…
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Crucial Step Forward for Beef Exports to China
New measures to improve market access to China were announced by Prime Minister Theresa May this week – in a move which could see beef from the UK exported to the country… -
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More Danish pigs to be produced without antibiotics
Denmark has earmarked DKK 12.5 million for research into how to reduce the need for antibiotics among Danish pigs. The target is for 1.5 million pigs to be produced without antibiotics by…
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