Day 091 - 17 Feb 95 - Page 35
1 arise?
2 A. Well, I do not know of any equivalent to the growth
3 promoting type of antibiotic that might be used in human
4 medicine.
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6 MS. STEEL: Do you use any other type of growth promoters at
7 Sun Valley?
8 A. No, we do not. The ones that refer to that we used are
9 zinc bacitracian, virginia mycin or avoparcin.
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11 Q. Has that always been the case?
12 A. That has always been the case.
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14 Q. Dr. Gregory said that he thought the antibiotic you were
15 using at Sun Valley was sulphadimidime?
16 A. It was actually trimethoprim sulphadiozime.
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18 Q. So that is wrong. Are you saying that is the same thing?
19 A. No. If said it was sulphadimidime, then he must have
20 got it wrong.
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22 Q. The furazolodone, where was that used? Sorry, I cannot
23 remember?
24 A. It is an antibiotic that we used to use in the starter
25 ration of poultry, but it is also a useful therapeutic
26 antibiotic and we use it from time to time for treating
27 E.coli septicaemia.
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29 Q. Right and that is still used?
30 A. No.
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32 Q. For that purpose?
33 A. No, we do not use it any more.
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35 Q. How long had that been used for?
36 A. It has been used for the last 30 years.
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38 Q. But by Sun Valley?
39 A. By Sun Valley. It has been used ever since the company
40 started, I would guess.
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42 Q. Right.
43 A. It has been one of the standard treatments for poultry
44 for many, many years.
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46 Q. Is it right there is no effective test for residues of
47 Furazolodone?
48 A. No, there is an effective test for Furazolodone
49 residues. Residues of any antibiotics can be tested for,
50 and this is done routinely by the Ministry of Agriculture
51 now by random sampling from slaughter plants.
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53 MR. JUSTICE BELL: So if I made a note, the effective test is
54 really residues of all antibiotics?
55 A. That is correct.
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57 Q. That would be correct, would it?
58 A. That is correct, yes.
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60 MS. STEEL: How routinely is that done, how frequently?
