Otherwise known as "bute," the drug is a potent equine painkiller that's prohibited in horse meat produced by EU trading partners, including the U.S., where 95-100 percent of horses are estimated ...

Following a 1 ½-length score over race favorite Forward Pass in the Run for the Roses on May 4, 1968, Dancer’s Image was ...

Chronic use of phenylbutazone, or Bute, in horses with joint problems could be causing more problems than it's preventing. A recent study has shown that Bute and other non-steroidal anti ...

The closest thing to a national standard in the United States, the National Uniform Medication Program's list of controlled therapeutic substances, allows a race-day presence of bute (threshold ...

Blea isn’t opposed to giving a horse bute and other anti-inflammatorites. Any medication can be abused, he said, but he agrees that horses shouldn’t race if they need it.

Horse painkiller bute found in Asda 'Smart Price' corned beef after tins were recalled from the shelves. Food Standards Agency found veterinary painkilling drug phenylbutazone; Asda removed the £ ...

They ‘Bute’ Horses, Don’t They? By Bonnie Erbe, Thomas Jefferson Street blog If you can't persuade them for the right reasons, then scare them with the facts. A new paper in the journal Food ...

Horse meat containing the veterinary drug bute may have entered the French food chain. The meat has been traced to a Taunton slaughterhouse. It was exported from Taunton to France before the test ...

The Save America’s Forgotten Equines (SAFE) Act would prohibit the slaughter of horses in the United States for human consumption, as well as the export of live horses for the same purpose. Skip to ...

The good news is that bute's effect on equine oocytes appears to wear off within a few weeks. "We collected the eggs at three days post treatment, then 33 days, and then 77 days," she said.

Traces of the horse painkiller bute have been found in eight horse carcasses from UK abattoirs, three of which have entered the food chain in France. Agriculture minister David Heath told the ...

Eight horses, killed in the UK, tested positive for the painkiller bute and six may have entered the food chain in France, the Food Standards Agency said. England's chief medical officer said the ...