What are the potential risks involved in eating food derived from animals treated with unapproved drugs?
Residues in food from animals treated with unapproved drugs A Maximum Residue Limit (MRL) is the safe amount of residue that could remain in the tissue or food product derived from a food-producing animal that has been treated with a veterinary drug. This residue is considered to pose no adverse health effects if ingested daily by humans over a lifetime. MRLs are established only after VDD has conducted extensive reviews of data submitted by manufacturers and has determined that foods containing these veterinary drugs residues up to the recommended levels, are safe for human consumption. When unapproved drugs are used or when approved drugs are used in an extra-label manner, MRLs have usually not been established by Health Canada. Imported veterinary drugs not approved in Canada may or may not have an MRL from another country. However, there may be differences in the methodology used to measure residues or in the way that the MRLs are calculated because Canada’s drug approval system, a
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