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

Use of Markers in Veterinary Preparations for the Detection of Antibiotics in Milk

Eastern Utilization Research and Development Division, USDA, Washington, D. C.

R. D. Plowman

Animal Husbandry Research Division, USDA, Beltsville, Md.

W. W. Wright

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

ABSTRACT

The frequent occurrence of veterinary antibiotics in the present-day milk supply has been the concern of a number of individuals in many fields of endeavor. In the past few years, there appears to have been an increasing interest on the part of regulatory officials, as well as industry personnel, in the incidence of antibiotics in milk (7, 8). The public health significance of antibiotic residues in market milk and its regulatory aspects have been thoroughly covered in the preceding paper by Grove (2) and certainly need no re-emphasis.

The Agricultural Research Service of the U. S. Department of Agriculture has a twofold interest in this problem. It is fully aware of the gross economic losses to the dairy farmer from mastitis and it appreciates the need for antibiotics to control this disease. At the same time, the Department is equally disturbed because such antibiotics can and occasionally do occur in sufficient concentration to cause serious economic losses to the cheese and fermented milk industries.