REGULATORY ACTIVITIES

The following firms/individuals received warning letters for offering animals for slaughter that contained illegal drug residues:

• Tapia Brothers #2 Dairy, Miles, TX
• Robert E. Beegle, Everett, PA

These violations involved illegal residues of sulfadimethoxine in a dairy cow and tetracycline in an animal.

The following firms/individuals received warning letters for offering cull dairy cows or calves for food that had illegal residues of antibiotics. These firms/individuals have a history of marketing cull dairy cows or calves with violative levels of drug residues:

• Valdemar Ferreira, Galt, CA
• Antonio Melo, Turlock, CA
• Joseph Machado, Manteca, CA
• Manuel Jorge, Corcoran, CA
• Joe Simoes, Tipton, CA

Warning letters were sent to the following producers for offering calves or cattle for sale that contained illegal drug residues in edible tissue:

• William F. Carroll, Ridgeley, MD
• David N. Willis, Greensboro, MD
• Frank Thompson, Union Bridge, MD
• R.M. Kennedy, Edinsburg, VA

The following dairy owners were sent warning letters for offering cull dairy cows with illegal residues of antibiotics for sale for food:

• Ernest Deniz, Petaluma, CA
• Michael Gallo, Atwater, CA
• Edward Pacheco, Galt, CA
• Richard Atsma, McFarland, CA
• Henry Tosta, Tracy, CA
• Heduyno Brasil, Tipton, CA
• Arthur George, Wilton, CA

A warning letter was sent to Supersweet West G.P., Garden City, KS, for deviations from the Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) regulations for medicated feed.