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Authors
Capra, Pierluigi
Leporati, Marta
Nebbia, Carlo
Gatto, Stefano
Attucci, Alberto
Barbarino, Gandolfo
Vincenti, Marco http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6275-7194
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Funding
Funding for this research was provided by:
Regione Piemonte (Determinazione di prednisolone e suoi metaboliti in bovini da latte e da carne; biotrasformazioni endogene in condizioni sperimentali di campo e di laboratorio)
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Article History
Received: 5 September 2018
Accepted: 30 August 2019
First Online: 18 September 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: According to what established by the Italian law D.Lgs. 26/2014 [CitationRef removed] transposing the Directive 2010/63/EU on animal experimentation, all the measures intended for the protection of animals used for scientific or educational purposes do not apply to non-experimental veterinary clinical practices (e.g. urine sampling, truck transportation for slaughtering, slaughtering). It should be also noted that i) all the cows enrolled in the study were at the end of their productive cycles and ii) the date of truck transportation to the abattoir was agreed with the farmers upon their requests. Based on what outlined above, no formal approval by the Health Ministry or the Bioethical Committee were required. The Direction of the veterinary services of the regional Government (Regione Piemonte, Direction of Public Health) supported and supervised the whole study. Oral consent to participation was explicitly expressed by the farm owners, who provided dedicated collaboration to the sampling procedures.
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: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
