Quinoxaline-2-carboxylic acid in pigs: Criteria to distinguish between the illegal use of carbadox and environmental contamination

Food Additives and Contaminants

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 538-544

  Hutchinson, M J ^a   Young, P B ^b   Kennedy, D Glenn ^b  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b AGRI FOOD AND BIOSCIENCES INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Carbadox; Pigs; Quinoxaline 2 carboxylic acid (QCA); Residues

Indexed keywords

2 QUINOXALINECARBOXYLIC ACID; CARBADOX;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL HOUSING; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BODY FLUID; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ABUSE; DRUG MONITORING; DRUG TISSUE LEVEL; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ECOLOGY; EUROPEAN UNION; NONHUMAN; POLLUTANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWINE;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CARBADOX; DRUG RESIDUES; HOUSING, ANIMAL; LIVER; QUINOXALINES; SUBSTANCE ABUSE DETECTION; SWINE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALIA; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 3042771645     PISSN: 0265203X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02652030410001677772     Document Type: Article

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