Big Green, You gave me something to do this morning, thanks. I searched around and ran across this. It’s a case study concerning Fina-H in cattle. It is very long and in depth, way to long to attach to this response. I know nothing concerning copy right laws so I’m hesitant to attach anything from the document. However I didn’t think there was anything wrong with giving the case study number, date it was written and where I found it. I found this document on the FDA.gov website. Freedom of Information Summary NADA 138-612 July 2, 1986.

After reading, this is my interpretation only; the chances of birth defects and damage to reproductive organs are a concern but not overbearing. From what I gathered normal values are attainable after treatment has been stopped. Of course this study was done with lab rats and not cattle but even the safe level determination for cattle is done with rats.

As for the reason for the slaughter of animals rather than continued re-production of treated animal has to do with concentration levels increasing beyond approved levels for human consumption and the outside chance it can be passed through genes. After thirty days the animals reached levels that could be considered out of guidelines but while dealing with injected pellets, dosage dropping over an extended period of time like six months, hence the reason for a six month doping period before slaughter. Not to mention the cattleman wanting to get the most money for pound needs to slaughter the animal before gains are lost. Here’s an interesting fact, by-products (waste) of the slaughtered animal are handled as hazardous waste due to the introduction of Fina.

One very interesting thing I learned in the document was the whole reason behind giving Fina. It’s given to cattle to improve protein synthesis, feed efficiency. Muscle growth and fat loss are accomplished even thought the animal never gets any exercise. Amazing! A cattleman could give it to his cows and spend less monies on feed and still get even more poundage than a none treated animal.

This is, again, only my interpretation so I very well may have it all wrong. But I will keep looking and let you know if I run across something that sheds a little more light on the subject.