Answering Questions about Hormone Use in Beef
July 6th, 2009
Worried about consumer concerns regarding hormone use in your cattle? As someone involved in the cattle industry, you may have faced questions lately regarding the health effects on humans consuming meat from cattle given hormones. Dan Loy, Iowa State University Extension beef specialist, offers no-nonsense answers in the latest factsheet from the Iowa Beef Center – “Understanding Hormone Use in Beef.”
Looking for more information? Check out one of these reliable resources:
- “Consumer Concerns about Hormones in Food”
- “The Use of Steroid Hormones for Growth Promotion in Food-Producing Animals” (FDA)
- “Organic, Natural and Grass-Fed Beef: Profitability and Constraints to Production in the Midwestern U.S.” (Iowa Beef Center)
- “Human Safety of Hormone Implants used to Promote Growth in Cattle”
