For over a decade, a group of food safety, environmental, and animal welfare nonprofits has petitioned the US Food and Drug Administration — which Kennedy now oversees — to ban the use of one of the ...

It's called ractopamine, and it might be in most bacon you eat. If you're thinking racto-what?, you're not alone. Ractopamine belongs to a class of drugs commonly administered to animals called ...

In the coming months, a few shoppers will encounter a new and unfamiliar phrase when looking at packages of pork: "Produced without the use of ractopamine." It's the brainchild of David Maren ...

Have you ever heard of ractopamine? Neither have most US food consumers though it is used in 80 percent of US pig and cattle operations. The asthma drug-like growth additive, called a beta ...

Meat from animals fed ractopamine is safe for human consumption when done according to manufacturer recommendations. Ractopamine is a feed additive for pigs and beef cattle that has gotten ...

About one-fifth of the 240 pork products we analyzed in a separate test harbored low levels of the drug ractopamine, which the U.S. approved in 1999 to promote growth and leanness in pigs.

WASHINGTON, July 11, 2012 -The Codex Alimentarius Commission, the United Nations food standards body, agreed Friday on a set of residue limits for the veterinary drug ractopamine in animal tissues.

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China will step up inspections to enforce its ban on meat imports from Taiwan, after the self-ruled island’s decision to allow imports of US pork containing ractopamine took effect, a mainland ...

Taiwanese officials on Wednesday said they would recommend a conditional lifting of restrictions against U.S. beef that contains a "safe level" of ractopamine, a meat-leanness enhancer used by U.S ...

LANSING -- As international debate continues on the use of the feed additive ractopamine, Neogen Corporation (Nasdaq: NEOG) has launched easy-to-use 10 minute tests to detect ractopamine in animal ...