Furazolidone residues in pigs: Criteria to distinguish between treatment and contamination

Food Additives and Contaminants

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 75-82

  McCracken, Robert J ^a   McCoy, Maurice A ^a   Kennedy, D Glenn ^a  

^a AGRI FOOD AND BIOSCIENCES INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

3 amino 2 oxazolidinone; Pigs; Residues; Turazolidone

Indexed keywords

FURAZOLIDONE; ILLICIT DRUG;

ARTICLE; BILE; EUROPEAN UNION; FOOD CONTAMINATION; KIDNEY; LAW; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWINE;

ANIMALIA; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 0033980990     PISSN: 0265203X     EISSN: 14645122     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/026520300283612     Document Type: Article

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