Zilpaterol positives in International poster child of perfection Hong Kong

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Originally Posted by NTamm1215

But, this is an incident of contamination now. It has nothing to do with how long they've been using it, and nowhere is anyone being led to believe the feed was contaminated for 4 1/2 years.

Fair enough, the way I read the material posted here is that there were two logical possibilities, contamination being one or that the product always contained this ingrediant without it being labeled and it is just being detected now. Considering that two different products had tested positive and the large number of horses affected, the first scenerio seemed much less likely, though it seems now that both feeds came from the same manufacturer and plant.

What I find more interesting is that California was on top of this in March having discovered 48 cases of the contamination.

http://www.paulickreport.com/news/th...th-zilpaterol/

http://www.thehorse.com/articles/316...mination-cited

This begs the question as to how Hong Kong would not know two and half months later that the same feed being shipped to their horses from the same manufacturing plant during the same time of manufacture should not be fed to their horses two months after the feed is known to be contaminated. Guess they are not so perfect after all.