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Chemical residues and contaminants
Queensland has a well-deserved reputation for high-quality, clean and healthy food production. To safeguard this reputation, DPI&F regulates the use of pesticides and veterinary medicines, and monitors plant and animal produce for chemical residues and contaminants.
Features
Agricultural Chemical Users' Manual
Expert advice on pest biology and control, agricultural chemical products, spray and other application technologies, managing chemical resistance and preventing spray drift (free download for individual use).
Chemical residues
- Monitoring and regulating chemical residues and contaminants
- Persistent organochlorine (OC) contaminants in cattle
- Persistent organochlorine contaminants in soil
- National Organochlorine Residue Management (NORM) program
- Guard against chemical residues in stock from drought feeds
- Restrictions on feeding cannabis to livestock
- DPI&F's veterinary and chemical residue laboratories
- Hormonal Growth Promotants (HGPs)
- Producing cattle for European markets
- Use of detector dogs in residue-management programs
Contaminants
- Avoid aflatoxin poisoning of livestock
- Mycotoxin poisoning of pigs
- Aflatoxin in peanuts
- Drought management strategies for dairy farmers
- Lead poisoning in livestock
Other useful information
- AQIS Export Meat Notice
- National Vendor Declaration and Waybill
- Livestock Fodder Declarations
- National Residue Survey
- Pigpass Quality Assurance
- Safemeat risk assessment - alternative fodders
- Malicious damage to crops
Page maintained by Cassie Wright
Last updated 28 September 2007
URL: http://www.dpi.qld.gov.au/cps/rde/dpi/hs.xsl/cps/rde/dpi/hs.xsl/4790_4888_ENA_HTML.htm