Veterinary Drug Residues

Neotron SpA offers a wide range of analytical and technical services which includes veterinary drug residues. It belongs to food and feed category. Veterinary drugs are administered to animals as medicines or through "medicated supplements", mixes of drugs in simple food media, given to animals mixed with feed. Each medicinal product and medicated feed, suitable for the treatment of animals producing food, must be regularly authorized and registered. It is unfortunately known that in some situations there is abuse in the use of veterinary drugs, or worse, a completely illegal use of forbidden drugs, employed both for therapy and to alter the normal physiology of the animals in order to obtain easy gains, even though illegal. To prevent the risk from an improper or fraudolent use of veterinary drugs it is necessary to implement a control system of the production "chain", identifying "critical points" in the use of veterinary drugs, from the farm to the consumer's table.The detection of drug residues plays a significant role considering globalization processes which allow an increasingly free movement of goods in countries with different and often conflicting regulations. Analytical techniques: The methods, single or multi-residue, employ the best and most advanced equipment in order to provide the highest reliability and lowest limits of quantification. Techniques for analytical results: ULPC-MS/MS, LC-MS/MS, LC-Q/TOF.