Great Plains Veterinary Educational Center

2 Quality Assurance Programs (QA) designed by producers & food industry affiliates To Provide … production management education –Targets defect prevention … emphasis is SAFETY –Chemical, Physical & Biological safety defects/hazards Consumers Confidence in Quality & Safety QA Programs are NOT Government Programs

Great Plains Veterinary Educational Center 3 Quality Assurance Objectives Entry level => Provides education & training Advanced level => Verification & documentation needed for: USDA-FSIS standards QA program requirements Branded Product Initiatives To Provide Consumer Confidence...

Great Plains Veterinary Educational Center 4 Quality Assurance Approach incorporate into other management objectives and in everyone's job allow it to grow in everyone's attitude American Meat, Milk & Eggs … Are Quality Products

Great Plains Veterinary Educational Center 5 QA Is A Road Map To Food Safety HACCP … Build on what you know Producers, Employees, Veterinarians, Nutritionist, Other Specialist, Suppliers … … must take a close look at what could go wrong Chemical, Physical & Biological safety hazards Build practices that allow checking & verifying Design all of the everyday working techniques to avoid having anything go wrong “Target Activities” => Justify, Verify, Monitor“Target Activities” => Justify, Verify, Monitor

Great Plains Veterinary Educational Center 6 HACCP … In a nut shell What could go wrongWhat could go wrong How can it be preventedHow can it be prevented Institute the preventionInstitute the prevention Verify the prevention is in placeVerify the prevention is in place – AND accomplishing the objective In QA HACCP targetsIn QA HACCP targets –Chemical, Physical & Biological safety hazards

Great Plains Veterinary Educational Center 7 Secret to HACCP Justify Verify Monitor Activity↕ Outcome Target

Great Plains Veterinary Educational Center 8 QA GMP Guidelines (Good Management Practices) Care & Husbandry Practices Feedstuffs & Sources Feed Additives & Medications Individual Treatments –Health Products & Injections Mgnt Outliers (Performance/Transfers) –Evaluate History & Residue Test As Indicated Record Keeping

Great Plains Veterinary Educational Center 9 Does QA Work? … YES We have information … Do we have a story to tell … QA programs are in almost every state. USDA-APHIS data tells us that over 95% of all US feedlot have a formal training program for quality assurance. Swine has a similar acceptance of QA programs. Programs include: antibiotic selection & use, residue avoidance and physical defect management …

Great Plains Veterinary Educational Center 10 Does QA Work? … YES The USDA-FSIS says “Meat HAS NO RESIDUES TO BE CONCERNED ABOUT” …

Great Plains Veterinary Educational Center 11 Remember the Basics QA will help control the little mistakes that decrease animal performance. It’s the little mistakes that cost us consumer confidence… they buy what they trust. There NO Most Valuable Players QA is everyone's job.

Great Plains Veterinary Educational Center National Residue Monitoring Program

Great Plains Veterinary Educational Center The National Residue Program (NRP) consists of two sampling plans: domestic &import. The domestic sampling plan includes … Scheduled Sampling & Inspector Generated Sampling Scheduled sampling plans consist of the random sampling of tissue from healthy appearing food animals Statistically, applying sampling rates of 230 & 300 per production class population assures a 90 percent and 95 percent probability, respectively, to detect residue violations if the violation rate in the population is equal to or greater than one percent. 13

Great Plains Veterinary Educational Center USDA-FSIS Changes Residue Screening Test In October 2008, the USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) awarded Charm Sciences a contract to provide Charm KIS Tests to USDA inspectors at slaughter facilities to screen for sulfonamides and antibiotic drugs under the National Residue Program (NRP). FSIS will begin implementing the Charm KIS Test in phases starting with cattle (FSIS notice 50-90) and eventually implement it for all livestock. 14

Great Plains Veterinary Educational Center B. stearothermophilus DSM PremiTest, Charm KIS, 147 ⁰ F (64 ⁰ C) for 3 hrs 15

Great Plains Veterinary Educational Center “How often do you look at your clients written treatment records?” June Vet Survey Materials & Methods (AABP, June 2007) 16

Great Plains Veterinary Educational Center RESIDUE AVOIDANCE … Carefully evaluate your ELDU & the extended withdrawals you assign. … Review treatment & marketing records to assess prescription compliance. 17

Great Plains Veterinary Educational Center Antibiotic Residue Avoidance Strategy Identify all animals treated. Record all treatments: Date; animal’ ID; dose given; route of administration; the person who administered the treatment; withdrawal time (WD). Strictly follow label directions for product use. Use newer technology antibiotics when possible. Select antibiotics with short WD when the choice is equivalent. Never give more than 10 cc per IM injection site. Avoid Extra Label Drug Use (ELDU) of antibiotics. Avoid using multiple antibiotics at the same time. Don’t mix antibiotics in the same syringe. Check ALL medication/treatment records before marketing. 18

Great Plains Veterinary Educational Center What can be done to protect our producers … & ourselves? Use residue screening tests such as the urine adapted PremiTest or PHAST before “high-residue-risk” cattle are sold …Use residue screening tests such as the urine adapted PremiTest or PHAST before “high-residue-risk” cattle are sold … Will the test work “pre-harvest”? – Yes … BUT it is a microbial inhibition test and must use with knowledge of the sensitivity & the MRL If the urine doesn’t inhibit the test … it is not likely tissue juices from the kidney will inhibit the test … a couple of potential exceptions … Gen & Neo PremiTest (DSM Corp), PHAST (Pre-Harvest Antibiotic Screening Test) 19

Great Plains Veterinary Educational Center Testing Urine Isn’t Tough … (Pre-Harvest Antibiotic Screening Test) 20

Great Plains Veterinary Educational Center PHAST ( B. meg. FAST used on urine) “This little cow gets to go to Market” “This little cow stays home” 21

Great Plains Veterinary Educational Center What is the most important position our profession & industry can have? DON’T SEND CATTLE TO MARKET WITH A RESIDUE! 22

Great Plains Veterinary Educational Center 23 All positive screening tests are confirmed by approved analytical methods in an FSIS laboratory 23

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