Veterinary drug residues and antibiotics testing?

Veterinary drugs are used in animal husbandry to cure and prevent disease as well as to gain weight or reassurance during transport. Veterinary drugs are a complex group of substances with a couple of hundred actives belonging to different chemical classes and therapeutic areas, e.g. antibiotics, antiparasitics, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) such as phenylbutazone, hormones and, beta-agonists.

The misuse or improper use can lead to the development of drug-resistant microorganisms and the veterinary drug residue can go into the human food chain.

Consuming food with a high concentration of antibiotics badly affects health. The antibiotic residues can be transformed into poisonous substances.

In Vietnam, there is a “regulation of maximum limit of veterinary drugs residues in food” which is mentioned in Circular No. 24/2013 / TT-BYT.

The European nations and the US as well as other countries around the world have their own regulations about maximum levels of veterinary drug residues in different matrices.

Veterinary drug and antibiotic residue testing 

Eurofins Food and Feed Testing in Vietnam provides diverse testing methods to control the risks of veterinary drug residue in your products. Samples are analyzed using state-of-the-art machines such as LC-MS/MS, GC-MS/MS,...

All main veterinary drug and antibiotic parameters can be analyzed by Eurofins Sac Ky Hai Dang covering the following groups which are all ISO 17025 accredited:

• avermectins
• amphenicoles
• benzimidazoles
• quinolones
• ß-lactames
• macrolides
• nitroimidazoles
• sulfonamides
• tetracyclines
• triphenylmethane dyes