TY - JOUR AU - Kouakou, Brou AU - Rampersad, David AU - Rodriguez, Eloy AU - Brown, Dan L. TI - Initial research indicates dairy goats used to clear poison oak do not transfer toxicant to milk JF - California Agriculture JO - Calif Agr Y1 - 1992/05/01 VL - 46 IS - 3 SP - 4 EP - 6 PB - University of California Agriculture and Nature Resources SN - 0008-0845 UR - http://www.ucanr.edu/sites/calagjournal/archive/?article=ca.v046n03p4 AB - Dairy goats that eat poison oak do not transfer detectible amounts of the toxic principle, urushiol, to the milk or to the urine. Furthermore, this oily, toxic irritant is found in goat manure at less than 9% of its concentration in poison oak leaves. What does all this portend? That farmers using dairy goats to clear poison oak need not worry about contaminating the goats' milk with urushiol. More studies are underway.