A Westport dairy farm has agreed to stop selling animals for human consumption after federal regulators said they found illegal drug residues in cattle.
During an inspection last June, the Food and Drug Administration documented multiple violations of federal food laws at Michael P. Ferry Inc., after the U.S. Department of Agriculture found illegal residues of penicillin and other drugs in cattle Ferry sold for slaughter — violations similar to those the FDA documented in an Aug. 11, 2011, letter to Ferry.
Illegal drug residues can pose a "significant public health risk," the agency said, because certain consumers may have "severe allergic reactions" after eating food containing "above-tolerance" antibiotic levels.
"When a company refuses to comply with food safety laws and regulations, the FDA must take legal action to protect public health," said Daniel McChesney, director of the Office of Surveillance and Compliance at the FDA's Center for Veterinary Medicine. "We ... will continue to monitor the dairy to confirm that the terms of the agreement are met."
The agreement prohibits the farm from selling animals for human consumption until it implements record-keeping systems to identify and track animals that have been treated with drugs, and ensure that drugs are not used in a way contrary to the labeling without a valid veterinarian-client-patient relationship.
A call to the dairy farm was not returned yesterday.
Since 2005, the FDA has sent 449 warning letters nationally about illegal drug residues, adulterated animals sold for slaughter and extralabel drug use.
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