CFR > Title 21 - Food and Drugs > CHAPTER I—FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES > SUBCHAPTER E—ANIMAL DRUGS, FEEDS, AND RELATED PRODUCTS (parts 500 to 590) > PART 556—TOLERANCES FOR RESIDUES OF NEW ANIMAL DRUGS IN FOOD > SUBPART B—Specific Tolerances for Residues of New Animal Drugs (§556.34 to §556.770) > 556.500—Oxytetracycline.

556.500—Oxytetracycline.

(a) Acceptable daily intake (ADI). The ADI for total tetracycline residues (chlortetracycline, oxytetracycline, and tetracycline) is 25 micrograms per kilogram of body weight per day.
(b) Beef cattle, dairy cattle, calves, swine, sheep, chickens, turkeys, finfish, and lobster. Tolerances are established for the sum of residues of the tetracyclines including chlortetracycline, oxytetracycline, and tetracycline, in tissues and milk as follows:
(1) 2 parts per million (ppm) in muscle.
(2) 6 ppm in liver.
(3) 12 ppm in fat and kidney.
(4) 0.3 ppm in milk.

Code of Federal Regulations

[63 FR 57246, Oct. 27, 1998, as amended at 66 FR 46370, Sept. 5, 2001; 69 FR 6557, Feb. 11, 2004]