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Your testing ability for individual sulfonamides, plus 'total sulfonamides' for the benefit of participants using ELISA test kits, will be evaluated.
Animal products for human consumption are tightly legislated and closely monitored for compliance. Veterinary medicines used in animals are likely to have a pharmacological effect in humans. Hence, for many veterinary medicines, there are extremely low maximum residue limits or even no MRL (i.e. any detection is non-compliant). The Fapas proficiency test materials are produced in keeping with EU MRLs or minimum required performance limit (MRPL) where MRLs are not set. The result reporting requirements are also in keeping with quality control guidelines laid out in EC/657/2002. Fapas veterinary medicine proficiency test materials include incurred residues as well as fortified animal products. The proficiency tests are grouped in analytical chemical class/matrix combinations and combine identification and quantification. The proficiency tests are suitable for all methods, including screening methods (for the detection of total amount of that chemical class).
Sulfonamides are a large group of veterinary medicine drugs used across the globe to ensure a high quality stock is reared. They are used extensively to mitigate disease but can be overused if not administered within good farming practices. This can have a detrimental effect on the livestock, as well as creating large amounts of incurred residues within produce offered to consumers.
This must be highlighted quickly and accurately due to the potentially harmful effects these residues can have on consumers health. Your effective testing abilities are therefore required to protect consumers and ensure only safe produce is offered to consumers.
Pig liver provides an ideal test material from which to evaluate your testing ability. This is due to the important functions liver undertake within the body, as such the levels of residues, including incurred residues, are likely to be higher than other parts of the animal.
Proficiency testing activities are ideal for highlighting areas of improvement within your testing arrangement, as well as providing a benchmark for long term improvement activities such as quality assurance programmes.
Fapas proficiency tests make use of real food matrices, from which to allow direct ad timely comparisons with your routine analysis activities, from which to ensure high quality testing is offered to your customers.
