EURL Reflection paper 2.0: Natural growth promoting substances in biological samples : Presence - and formation - of hormones and other growth promoting substances in food producing animals.
From 29 November to 1 December 1995, Directorate-General VI, Agriculture, of the European Commission organised the “Scientific conference on growth promotion in meat production”1. During this conference, worldwide leading scientists discussed the existing and emerging growth-enhancing substances, the assessment of health risks, and the methods for detection and surveillance. One of the papers, presented by the group of Guy Maghuin-Rogister (University of Liège) was titled: “Methods of detection and surveillance of natural sex steroid hormones”. This paper assessed the possibilities of setting thresholds based on quantitative data obtained with immunoassays. For various situations, it was concluded that discrimination between untreated and treated animals should be possible but that further research would be needed to effectively enforce the ban on the use of hormones for growth promotion.Also during the Euroresidue conferences, held from 1990 until 2022, it has shown that even when some strategies are determined, for a number of naturally occurring compounds there is still need for an enforcement strategy.In 2014 we evaluated the status of natural occurring growth promoters in the EURL Reflection paper. We wanted to provide enforcement bodies with practical guidelines and to identify the remaining research needs.Now, eight years later, we updated the EURL Reflection paper. Literature of the past 8 years is incorporated, and we give an update on research and strategies, and new endogenous compounds that are identified.We expect that with this 2.0 version, we will provide updated information to enforcement agencies and laboratories and channel our research activities for the coming years to solve the blind spots addressed in this Reflection paper.
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| Format: | External research report biblioteca |
| Language: | English |
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Wageningen Food Safety Research
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| Subjects: | Life Science, |
| Online Access: | https://research.wur.nl/en/publications/eurl-reflection-paper-20-natural-growth-promoting-substances-in-b |
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