Evidence that urinary excretion of thiouracil in adult bovine submitted to a cruciferous diet can give erroneous indications of the possible illegal use of thyrostats in meat production

Food Additives and Contaminants

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 974-980

  Pinel, G ^a   Mathieu, S ^a   Cesbron, N ^b   Maume, D ^a   De Brabander, H F ^c   Andre, F ^a   Le Bizec, B ^a  

^a Waters Corporation   (France)

^b LUNAM UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Cabbage; Cruciferous plants; Liquid chromatography electrospray ionization tandem mass spectroscopy (LC ESI( ) MS MS); Rapeseed; Thiouracil; Thyrostats; Urine

Indexed keywords

THIOURACIL;

ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; CABBAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COW; DERIVATIZATION; ELECTROSPRAY MASS SPECTROMETRY; FOOD ANALYSIS; FOOD CONTAMINATION; LEGAL ASPECT; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MEAT INDUSTRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAPESEED; TOXICOKINETICS; URINALYSIS;

ANIMAL FEED; ANIMAL NUTRITION PHYSIOLOGY; ANIMALS; ANTITHYROID AGENTS; BRASSICA; BRASSICA RAPA; BRASSICACEAE; CATTLE; CHROMATOGRAPHY, LIQUID; DRUG RESIDUES; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; MALE; MEAT; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION; SUBSTANCE ABUSE DETECTION; THIOURACIL;

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS; BRASSICA NAPUS; BRASSICA OLERACEA VAR. CAPITATA;

EID: 33749025002     PISSN: 0265203X     EISSN: 14645122     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02652030600806370     Document Type: Article

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