wherestip wrote:
This Wikipedia page on clenbuterol says it's "not an ingredient of any therapeutic drug approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration". It has no mention of it being approved by the FDA as a feed additive for livestock either...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clenbuterol
Steve,
Thanks for the link. I also noticed the following paragraphs from the same link:
Food contamination
In September 2006 over 330 people in Shanghai were reported to have been poisoned by eating pork contaminated by clenbuterol that had been fed to the animals to keep their meat lean. There are also other informal reports on localized food contamination cases by clenbuterol in the U.S., which led to setting rules that limit consumption of this medicine only to horses.[10]
In February 2009, at least 70 people in one Chinese province (Guangdong) suffered food poisoning after eating pig organs believed to contain clenbuterol residue. The victims complained of stomachaches and diarrhea after eating pig organs bought in local markets.[11][12]
In March 2011, China's Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) said that the government would launch a one-year crackdown on illegal additives in pig feed, after a subsidiary of Shuanghui Group, China's largest meat producer, was exposed for using clenbuterol-contaminated pork in its meat products. A total of 72 people in central Henan Province, where Shuanghui is based, were taken into police custody for allegedly producing, selling or using clenbuterol.[13][14]
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