Chapter 5 - Sampling and Testing

Table of Contents

• 5.1 TYPES OF TESTING
  • 5.1.1 Monitoring
  • 5.1.2 Directed
  • 5.1.3 Compliance
• 5.2 CHEMICAL RESIDUES
  • 5.2.1 Introduction
  • 5.2.2 Individual exposure
  • 5.2.3 Exposure of a lot
  • 5.2.4 In-plant exposure
  • 5.2.5 National Chemical Residue Monitoring Program - Domestic
  • 5.2.6 National Chemical Residue Monitoring Program - Imports
  • 5.2.7 Antibiotics
  • 5.2.8 Tetracyclines
  • 5.2.9 Sulfonamides
  • 5.2.10 Steroid Hormones
  • 5.2.11 Prostaglandins
  • 5.2.12 Somatotropin
  • 5.2.13 Beta agonists
  • 5.2.14 Other therapeutic agents
  • 5.2.15 Insecticides
  • 5.2.16 Other Pesticides
  • 5.2.17 Chlorine
  • 5.2.18 Polyhalogenated hydrocarbons
  • 5.2.19 Heavy metals
  • 5.2.20 Hydraulic fluid
• 5.3 MICROBIAL RESIDUES
  • 5.3.1 Introduction
  • 5.3.2 Ready to Eat Products (M200, M203)
  • 5.3.3 Domestic Raw Ground Beef (M201)
  • 5.3.4 Aerobic Colony Count (ACC)
  • 5.3.5 Campylobacter coli and jejuni
  • 5.3.6 Clostridium perfringens
  • 5.3.7 Generic E. coli
  • 5.3.8 Verotoxigenic E. coli
  • 5.3.9 Salmonella
  • 5.3.10 Yersinia enterocolitica
  • 5.3.11 Listeria
  • 5.3.12 Staphylococcus aureus
  • 5.3.13 Mycobacterium bovis
  • 5.3.14 Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy
  • 5.3.15 Chronic Wasting Disease
  • 5.3.16 Scrapie
  • 5.3.17 Diseases of Animal Health Significance
• 5.4 PARASITES
  • 5.4.1 Cysticercosis
  • 5.4.2 Trichinella
• 5.5 HISTOPATHOLOGY
  • 5.5.1 Introduction
  • 5.5.2 Sample selection
  • 5.5.3 Testing
  • 5.5.4 Follow-up
• 5.6 COMPOSITIONAL AND PROCESS TESTING
  • 5.6.1 Introduction
  • 5.6.2 Nitrates/nitrites
  • 5.6.3 Protein
  • 5.6.4 Mechanically Separated Meat
  • 5.6.5 Species Verification
  • 5.6.6 Irradiation
  • 5.6.7 Can integrity - Imported (M206)
• 5.7 SAMPLE SUBMISSION PROCEDURES
  • 5.7.1 Laboratory Sample Tracking System (LSTS)
  • 5.7.2 Recording of livestock identification
  • 5.7.3 Samples for chemical residue analysis
  • 5.7.4 Samples for antibiotic confirmation
  • 5.7.5 Samples for compositional analysis
  • 5.7.6 Samples for microbiological analysis
  • 5.7.7 Samples for BSE
  • 5.7.8 Samples for Scrapie
  • 5.7.9 Samples for histopathology
• 5.8 FORMS
  • 5.8.1 Specimen Identification Label
• 5.9 RESIDUE, ANTI-MICROBIAL AND MICRO-ORGANISMS SYSTEM (RAMS)
  • 5.9.1 Introduction
  • 5.9.2 Notification
  • 5.9.3 Logging on
  • 5.9.4 Trace back
  • 5.9.5 Reassigning
  • 5.9.6 Animal information
  • 5.9.7 Owner information
• 5.10 REFERENCES

ANNEXES

Annex A - Submission Form - Cost Recovered Antibiotic Confirmation

Annex B - Example of clenbuterol residue violation letter

Annex C - Listeria In-depth audit form

Annex D - Instructions for the use of the Tuberculosis Submission Kit

Annex E - Collecting and Shipping Tissues from Animals at High Risk for Tuberculosis

Annex F - Media & Material Orders

Annex G - Directory of CFIA Laboratories

Annex I - Risk-based Verification Sampling of Ready-to-Eat (RTE) Meat and Poultry Products

Suggestions for changes or corrections to this chapter should be directed in writing to:

Dr. H. Scrimgeour
National Lead, Chemical Residues Working Group
Guelph Area Office
174 Stone Rd. W.
Guelph, Ontario N1G 4S9