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Symposium: Use and Control of Pesticides and Antibiotics in Milk Production and Manufacturing. Federal Recommendations

Pesticide Residues in Dairy Practice

Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Washington, D. C.

ABSTRACT

It is, of course, well recognized that some of the organic pesticides, which would otherwise find advantageous use in dairy practice, can and do get into milk. They have the capability of transferring to milk through the animal's body, from its feed, from application to its hide, and from the air it breathes. Scientific and technological advisors to the dairy industry have joined with public health authorities in viewing this situation with concern. Among those familiar with the pertinent facts, there seems no divergence of opinion as to the actuality of a problem; there may, indeed, be differences in evaluation of the problem, and differences in approaches toward its solution.

The problem is obviously soluble, in a specific instance, by one of two approaches:

1. Establishment of a safe tolerance for the specific residue in milk, in the amount needed to afford practical utilization of the pesticide, or
   
2. Abandonment of the pesticide in those uses of it that give rise to any residue in milk.