Dangerous residues in beef from Brazil

Irish authorities have discovered potentially dangerous residues of veterinary medicine in frozen minced beef and tinned corned beef from Brazil.

The frozen minced beef, intended for distribution to other Ireland and Belgium, had 536 parts per billion (ppb) of albendazole, detected at the end of November, and notified to the EU’s Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed shortly before Christmas.

Albendazole is used worldwide for treatment of gastrointestinal infestations of roundworms, lungworms and tapeworms, and adult liver flukes.