12 KAR 2:026.
Ingredients.
RELATES TO: KRS
250.491-250.631
STATUTORY AUTHORITY:
KRS 250.571
NECESSITY, FUNCTION,
AND CONFORMITY: KRS 250.571(1) authorizes the Director of the Agricultural
Experiment Station to promulgate administrative regulations necessary for the
efficient enforcement of KRS 250.491 to 250.631, regarding commercial feeds.
KRS 250.521(1)(c) requires that a commercial feed label list the common or
usual name of each ingredient used in the manufacture of the commercial feed,
unless the director promulgates an administrative regulation permitting the use
of a collective term for a group of ingredients. This administrative regulation
establishes the requirements for listing the ingredients on the commercial feed
label.
Section 1. Commercial
feeds, other than customer formula feeds, shall have an ingredient statement
listing the feed ingredients, collective terms for the grouping of feed
ingredient or other appropriate statement as provided under provisions of KRS
250.521(1)(c).
(1) The name of each
ingredient or collective term for the grouping of ingredients, if required to
be listed, shall be the name as defined in the "Official Definitions of
Feed Ingredients" as published in the Official Publication of the
Association of American Feed Control Officials, the common or usual name, or
one approved by the director.
(2) The ingredient
statement may list the collective terms for the grouping of feed ingredients as
defined in the official definitions of feed ingredients published in the Official
Publication of the Association of American Feed Control Officials rather than
the individual ingredients.
(a) If a collective
term for a group of ingredients is used on the label, individual ingredients
within that group shall not be listed on the label.
(b) The manufacturer
shall provide the Director of Regulatory Services, upon written or oral
request, with a listing of individual ingredients within a defined group that
are or have been used in manufacturing facilities distributing in Kentucky. The
manufacturer shall be specific in its response when the request is made of a
particular facility or production.
Section 2. The name
of each ingredient shall be shown in letters or type of the same size.
Section 3. A
reference to quality or grade of an ingredient shall not appear in the
ingredient statement of a feed.
Section 4. The term
"dehydrated" may precede the name of a product that has been
artificially dried.
Section 5. A single
ingredient product defined by the Association of American Feed Control
Officials shall not be required to have an ingredient statement.
Section 6. Tentative
definitions for ingredients shall not be used until adopted as official by the
Association of American Feed Control Officials unless an official definition
does not exist.
Section 7.
Commercial, registered brand or trade names shall not be permitted in the
ingredient listing.
Section 8. The
percentage of rice hulls shall be listed in the ingredient statement of a
formula feed intended to supply energy to the animal if the amount added
exceeds three (3) percent by weight. This shall not apply to feed products
where rice hulls are used as a carrier including in dried molasses products,
Type A medicated articles, vitamins, trace mineral and other premix additives.
The percentage of rice hulls contributed from carrier sources shall be excluded
from the determination of percentage of rice hulls in formula feeds.
Section 9. A product
that is labeled, represented or intended to provide a substantial amount of
magnesium to cattle shall be formulated utilizing magnesium ingredients with a
biological value of seventy (70) percent or greater when compared to standard
reference of feed grade magnesium oxide with a biological value of 100 percent;
however, dolomitic limestone shall not be an acceptable source of magnesium
unless data substantiates the source of dolomitic limestone has a biological
value of seventy (70) percent or greater.
Section 10. If the
word "iodized" is used in connection with a feed ingredient, the feed
ingredient shall contain not less than 0.007 percent iodine, uniformly
distributed.
Section 11.
Incorporation by Reference. (1) "Official Publication", 1996 Edition,
Association of American Feed Control Officials, is incorporated by reference.
(2) It may be
inspected, copied, or obtained at the Division of Regulatory Services, 103
Regulatory Services Building, College of Agriculture, University of Kentucky,
Lexington, Kentucky 40546-0275, Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
(AES-2 (1973)-5; 1 Ky.R. 999; eff. 6-11-75; Am. 1608; 2710; eff. 1-10-97.)