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Pesticides—A Dairy Industry Problem¹

Pet Milk Research Center, Greenville, Illinois

ABSTRACT

It was just four years ago this month that I had the privilege of addressing the 56th Annual Meeting of the American Dairy Science Association at the University of Wisconsin on pesticide residues (2).

Although the subject was not new in 1961, it had recently loomed as a critical problem. During 1960, and even though the pesticide amendment to the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act had been in existence since 1954, the dairy industry experienced the first seizures by the Food and Drug Administration of dairy products moving in interstate commerce, because of contamination with pesticide residues. It was then that the full impact of the pesticide problem began to be realized, i.e., that dairy products containing very low levels of residues were in technical violation of the law, even though the amounts of residue involved were in the range of only .1 to .2 parts per million—actually, one hundred-fold less than published legal tolerances for residues on many other basic agricultural products.

¹ Presented at the 60th Annual Meeting of the American Dairy Science Association, University of Kentucky, Lexington, 1965.