After the discovery of this residue finding, the authorities in the United States of America reinforced their hormone-free cattle programme in June 1999, but in the face of further problems in this programme identified in the course of a mission to the United States by the Food and Veterinary Office of the Commission, the hormone-free programme was suspended in July 1999 and relaunched later in September 1999, in an enhanced form as the non-hormone-treated cattle programme.
Po odkritju tega ostanka so organi v Združenih državah Amerike junija 1999 okrepili svoj program za proizvodnjo mesa govedi brez vsebnosti hormonov, vendar je bil ob nadaljnjih problemih v tem programu, identificiranih med misijo v Združenih državah, ki jo je opravil Urad Komisije za prehrano in veterinarstvo, program za proizvodnjo mesa brez vsebnosti hormonov julija 1999 ukinjen in pozneje septembra 1999 ponovno uveden v izboljšani obliki kakor program za proizvodnjo govedi, ki niso bile tretirane s hormoni.