BRAZIL CHECKS
January 1st, 2004
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union is ordering a reduction from 100 to 20 per cent in the frequency of checks on poultry and poultry meat from Brazil to detect residues of the banned anti-biotic nitrofuran. Blanket inspections have been held since October 2002, after the drug was found in Brazilian poultry, but none has been discovered since August 2003.
THE EUROPEAN Union is ordering a reduction from 100 to 20 per cent in the frequency of checks on poultry and poultry meat from Brazil to detect residues of the banned anti-biotic nitrofuran. Blanket inspections have been held since October 2002, after the drug was found in Brazilian poultry, but none has been discovered since August 2003.
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