Livestock Show Drug Testing – Ensuring safe, fair, and healthy competition

For many Texas livestock exhibitors, January marks the beginning of "major show season". Texas is home to three major livestock shows and hundreds of county livestock shows. Many enlist the assistance of TVMDL to perform livestock drug testing services. In this episode, Dr. Brandon Dominguez visits with Analytical Chemistry Section Head Dr. Travis Mays to discuss the importance of drug testing for livestock shows and how the lab utilizes state-of-the-art equipment to drug test over 4,000 samples from around the United States each year.