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| From: Pigman ® |
24/11/2001
16:24:06
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| Subject: re: MEAT EVANGELIST
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510131
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Breasts
from Chicken Breasts - Hormones in food?
The European
Union, which has the largest and strongest voices against unnatural
things, has forbidden the use of all natural and synthetic hormones and
beta-agonists, since 1996. The importation of US beef has been banned by
the EU due to use of two growth promoting hormones, trenbolone and
zeranol. However, this case was up before the WTO with the justification
that if the EU can find legitimate reasons for its ban, it will be
upheld.
The believe by some of chickens having roid rage is wrong,
it stems from a report on that most accurate scientific journal 60
minutes, in July of 1985, in which the hormonal abnormalities in young
females in Puerto Rica was linked to feeding of hormones. The story
implied that the feeding of oestrogen to chicken was a common practice
worldwide - and a practice followed in Australia, this is false. The
administration of oestrogen to chickens to produce capon, castrate males,
was banned in Australia in the early 1960’s and capons are no longer
marketed. After USDA testing in Puerto Rica no trace of diethyl
stilbestrol (DES) or Zeranol, the two growth promotants blamed, was
found.
Australian Chicken Meat
Federation
All of these registered hormones must be
administered by intramuscular injection as they are broken down in guts,
therefore for humans to be affected you would have to inject it into you,
it hasn’t happened to me yet. Because they need to be injected some
farmers will not use due to the stress and aversion created by such
practices.
The Commonwealth Government has a testing program for
residues 1999 figures
cattle 1 residue over the MRL out of 31,525 analyses
sheep 1 out of 22,522
pigs 12 out of 18, 024 of which 11 were antimicrobials, (10 tetracycline)
honey 6 out of 7449
apples/pears 3 out of 5188
percentage
compliance to MRL
meat, 99.94;
grain, 99.98;
horticultural, 99.96
Fisheries, 99.91
(WARNING PDF FILE…. ACROBAT ONLY)Source:
http://www.affa.gov.au/corporate_docs/publications/pdf/food/sttsbookv3.pdf
Australian
Food Statistics 2000
Chemical
residue monitoring in food
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