[Studies on the results of monitoring of veterinary drug residues in food products of animal origin in Japan and other countries].

Abstract

The positive list system was introduced in Japan for agricultural chemicals such as pesticides, feed additives and veterinary drugs in May 2006. After this time, food containing residues of these chemicals exceeding MRLs, or the default tolerance (uniform limit: 0.01 ppm) cannot be marketed in Japan. The number of chemicals to be tested for imported food at the port increased remarkably. We studied on the results of monitoring of imported food for the residues of veterinary drugs and change in trend of violation after the enforcement of the system. The number of violation of the veterinary drugs in imported food increased largely, most of them were attributed to chloramphenicol and nitrofurans in seafood from Asian countries. Monitoring of the veterinary drugs in seafood in other countries such as EU, United States, United Kingdom and Australia were also studied.