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OK, since I started that one, I'll try and answer this.

-- The yucca is not included in the feed for its anti-inflammatory  
properties (aspirin).  It is included because studies showed that it  
reduced ammonia in the urine (respiratory health).

-- The label lists the yucca in the ingredient list, but there is  
nothing else on the bag, so unless you carefully read all the  
ingredients, and remember that it is on the banned list, it is  
possible to overlook it.  I know I did.  :)  

-- The company is selling a feed to which something was added for the  
overall health of the horse.  NOT for any anti-inflammatory  
properties.  However, the effective level of yucca as an anti- 
inflammatory is not known - or at least is not specified in the  
rules.  So - the question I had (and still have) is whether the amount  
of yucca included for the respiratory health is above or below the  
effective anti-inflammatory level.  If it is below effective anti- 
inflammatory levels, then it is not drugging.

-- Nobody (certainly not me) is asking AERC to overlook doping because  
it is in a commercially packaged feed.  The question is the effective  
level of a substance.  Same as the issue on the rice bran or oats  
(which is why someone posted that folks in Europe didn't feed rice  
bran.)


On May 12, 2009, at 11:23 AM, Mary Krauss wrote:

> I'm confused about the partucular query regarding yucca however. Why  
> would someone purchase commercially prepared feed that had yucca in  
> it?  If the yucca is there in therapeutic amounts one's horse could  
> compete while artificially enabled to handle aches or pains that  
> might otherwise result (rightly) in a pull.  This is drugging.  If  
> the yucca is not present in therapeutic amounts, why is it there at  
> all?  I don't understand why anyone would advocate daily dosing of  
> aspirin (yucca), and I don't understand why AERC would be asked to  
> overlook doping simply because the dope is in a commercially   
> packaged form?
>
> Mary K
>
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