Last year, Mexican authorities rejected pork exports from a slaughterhouse because samples were contaminated with clenbuterol, a drug that in recent years has become trendy among actors, models, bodybuilders and dieters.
"I had to double-check that I was actually seeing what I was seeing," said Henstock, investigations project manager for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
The same FSIS document certified that the plant's animals at the time were inspected and found to be "sound and healthy." For humans, clenbuterol's side effects can be serious, if not life-threatening. One study reported that people who took high doses of clenbuterol for weight loss or bodybuilding - sometimes 100 times higher than a typical therapeutic dose for respiratory problems - were admitted to critical care units with heart rates up to 170 beats per minute.
The amounts found in the Mexican samples would probably be "below what would have any significant physiological effect" in humans, said Matthew Fedoruk, chief science officer with the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency. But, he added, "it's really a case of what types of meat, how much meat you're eating, how the meat's been treated and a whole bunch of factors that might play into whether it has any effect to the individual that is unknowingly consuming the clenbuterol.
The risks are "much lower" in the United States and Europe, he said, because even meat imported from, say, Mexico is "more stringently screened than the meat that might be available in those high-risk countries for domestic consumption." The agency also monitors USDA records and talks with experts to keep track of meat potentially tainted with clenbuterol.
"The public here should be aware that this incident happened and that our federal officials failed to detect it until the Mexican government detected it for them and alerted them to it," Henstock said.
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