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The latest accounting for 2001 milk sampling has been released by the Food and Drug Administration's National Milk Drug Residue programme.
The FDA tests found that the number of US milk samples testing positive for drug residues remained at very low levels last year - less than one tenth of one per cent.
The results suggest that producers, processors, veterinarians, and regulators are successfully checking that animal drug residues stay out of the country's milk supply. In fiscal year 2001, only 3,401 of the 4,203,616 samples analysed tested positive for animal drug residues.
A total of 4.3 million milk tests were completed in 2001, on 14 different drugs or families of pharmaceutical compounds. Up to 47 testing methods were used to analyse the samples for residues.
Samples selected by officials for testing were in the form of a load of milk, either in bulk milk pickup tankers, pasteurised fluid milk, producer milk samples or other related sources, including milk from plant silos or transport tankers.
Most of the samples from the report were from bulk milk pickup tankers because every bulk milk pickup tanker is required to be tested prior to unloading at a milk plant.