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Regulators hide true extent of dangerous drug levels in poultry products
In a new report published today the Soil Association believes government regulators have seriously misled the public about the high incidence of dangerous drug residues found in chicken and eggs.
Richard Young, coordinator of the Soil Association's campaign against the overuse of antibiotics in intensive farming says,
'Despite repeated assertions by regulators that nearly all poultry products are free from detectable residues, figures show clearly that about 20 per cent of chicken meat and 10 per cent of the eggs tested contain residues of drugs deemed too dangerous for use in human medicine.'
Richard Young and Alison Craig, authors of the Soil Association report 'Too Hard to Swallow, the truth about drugs and poultry' challenge statements from senior officials in the Veterinary Medicines Directorate (VMD, the executive agency of Maff responsible for residue surveillance), who assert that approximately '99 per cent of poultry meat and 97 per cent of eggs are free of detectable residues.'
The report exposes that this distortion is achieved by a statistical trick. The results of positive tests for individual drugs are expressed as a percentage of all tests undertaken for all substance (most of which are never found).
Of most concern are the drugs used to control tiny intestinal parasites in poultry and game birds that can cause severe losses in intensive production systems. These include nicarbazin, lascalocid and dimetridazole, all of which pose potential risks to animal or human health [see notes to editors].
Mr. Young continued,
'These antimicrobial drugs have never been properly evaluated for safety, but there is evidence that they have the ability to cause cancer, birth defects and heart attacks. Some residue samples are more than 50 times over the legal limit, yet the VMD has brought no prosecutions. We want to see their use stopped as quickly as possible.'
The Soil Association says that more chickens should be reared organically where the routine use of drugs is not permitted. Intensive poultry producers could use vaccines instead of adding antimicrobials to feed, which would effectively reduce the risk of residues. However, vaccines cost almost 7p per bird, which for some producers is their entire profit margin per chicken.
The Soil Association believes that consumers would willingly pay a little extra for chickens produced without these drugs.
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