Veterinary Drug Residues Testing
Our veterinary drug residues testing services can help clients to determine and analyse a large number of drugs and medicinal products for animals against regulatory standards.
Veterinary drugs are administered to animals as medicine, through “medicated supplements”, mixes of drugs in simple food media, or given to animals mixed with feed.
Each medicinal product and medicated feed, suitable for the treatment of animals producing food, must be regularly authorized and registered.
It is unfortunately known that in some situations there is abuse in the use of veterinary drugs, or worse, a completely illegal use of forbidden drugs, employed both for therapy and to alter the normal physiology of the animals in order to obtain easy gains, even though illegal.
To prevent the risk from an improper or fraudulent use of veterinary drugs, it is necessary to implement a control system of the production “chain”, identifying “critical points” in the use of veterinary drugs from farm to the consumer’s table. The detection of drug residues plays a significant role considering globalization processes which allow an increasingly free movement of goods in countries with different and often conflicting regulations.
Our Analytical Services
Neotron is able to determine a large number of drugs belonging to classes as sulfa drugs, tetracyclines, quinolones, fluoroquinolones, coccidiostat, antibiotics.
The methods, single or multi-residue, employ the best and most advanced equipment in order to provide the highest reliability and lowest limits of quantification. Techniques for analytical results include:
- ULPC-MS/MS
- LC-MS/MS
- LC-Q/TOF
Legislative References
Commission Regulation (EU) No 37/2010 of 22 December 2009 on pharmacologically active substances and their classification regarding maximum residue limits in foodstuffs of animal origin.
Commission Regulation (EC) No 124/2009 of 10 February 2009 setting maximum levels for the presence of coccidiostats or histomonostats in food resulting from the unavoidable carry-over of these substances in non-target feed.
Systematic participation in the Proficiency Test provides external evidence of the performance of the applied test methods. Contact us to receive the results of the latest P-tests.
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Food and Feed
Neotron is a leading European provider of analytical services for the food and feed industry. We provide advanced technological methods to test the chemical, microbiological, and molecular composition of food products for our clients.
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