Source:  Lisa M. Keefe, MEATINGPLACE.COM,  8/9/10

USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service has issued a notice of an upcoming change in the test protocol that inspection personnel at beef slaughterers can use to check for antimicrobial drug residues.
Beginning Aug. 16, the agency’s inspection program personnel are to begin replacing the Fast Antimicrobial Screen Test (FAST) with the Kidney Inhibition Swab (KIS) Test, at those early processing establishments where the KIS Test isn’t already being used.

Carcasses are selected for sampling and testing by KIS in the same way that inspection personnel would select for testing with FAST.

To read the notice in its entirety, click here. 

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