The Food Animal Residue Avoidance Databank (FARAD) - Past, present and future

The Food Animal Residue Avoidance Databank (FARAD) was created in 1982 as a cooperative state and federal educational outreach program. FARAD's missio n has remained unchanged in the last fifteen years: to assist producers, ve terinarians, and allied professionals in the production of animal foods fre e of illegal chemical contaminants. At its core, FARAD is a collection of d atabases that users can efficiently access with the assistance of program e xperts. In order to meet emerging challenges related to technical and trade issues in food safety, current FARAD projects include inter-species data e xtrapolation, novel kinetic modeling, and international information exchang e.