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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).
Individual tetracyclines, plus 'total tetracyclines' for the benefit of participants using ELISA test kits, can be evaluated within this proficiency test.
Tetracyclines are well-utilised across the farming industry, maintaining high quality livestock and ensuring any disease is managed effectively to ensure the minimum negative impact is incurred. Due to the well-known benefits of these veterinary medicines they can be easily overused within poor farming practices. To combat this and mitigate any potential risks to the consumer, your effective testing activites must be safeguarded and undergo constant quality control checks.
Honey is globally consumed and incurs a large-scale demand year round. As such honey stocks and their supply chains are put under large amounts of pressure to satisfy this demand which can lead to poor farming practices being undertaken.
Proficiency testing can play a vital role in benchmarking your testing ability, from which to achieve and protect your high quality testing standards. Using real food matrices your proficiency test results can be directly comparable to your current routine testing arrangement, this allows immediate comparisons to be made to ensure effective testing processes are being passed to your customers and regulators alike.
