FSNS has been approved by the USDA-AMS Laboratory Approval Program for Export of Meat and Poultry Products for the analysis of the Beta-Agonist Ractopamine in Animal Muscle and Liver Tissues.

Tyson plans to prohibit the use of ractopamine in the market hogs it buys from farmers beginning in February 2020.

China claims forged documents, ractopamine residue in Canadian pork exports.

An increasing world population, with estimates of more than 9 billion people by 2050, and a decreasing cattle supply necessitates the use of feed technologies to meet the current and future demand of beef.

The methods were given official approval to be used in verification testing by the agency following an extensive review of method validation data.

Two Smithfield plants, which handle 43,000 hogs a day or about 10 percent of the U.S. industry, already are ractopamine-free.

Russia’s new restrictions on the feed additive ractopamine have reduced the number of Canadian plants eligible for exporting.