FDA Reports on Antibiotic Residues in Distillers Products
13 April 2012
US - The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) reports that four of the 46 samples of distillers? grains tested were quantifiable in the laboratory for one or more of 12 antibiotics. The information will be used for the development of future policy rather than regulation, says FDA.
Antibiotics are used in commercial fuel ethanol production facilities to control bacterial contamination, according to Dr Marla Luther of the Center for Veterinary Medicine at the FDA in a new report Nationwide Survey of Distillers Products for Antibiotic Residues for 2010. The FDA?s Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM) has taken steps to determine the impact of the use of antibiotics in commercial fuel ethanol production facilities because ethanol co-products, primary distiller?s grains ? also known as DDGS ? are used as animal feed ingredients...
