Two Northwest Missouri dairy farmers voice faith in tests used to ensure that antibiotics don’t contaminate milk sold to consumers.
Recent concerns surfaced nationally regarding the presence of antibiotics in milk sold at retail. The questions arose this month, when the U.S. Food and Drug Administration retreated from testing slated for farms that had sold older dairy cows destined for slaughter — but found tainted by drug residue.
Federal inspectors have traditionally discovered improper levels of antibiotics in some of the slaughter cows, which the FDA used to base the new tests for milk at the farms in question.
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