Alabama Administrative Code
Title 80 - ALABAMA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND INDUSTRIES
AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTRY
Chapter 80-1-8 - REQUIREMENTS FOR ANIMAL WASTE FEED
Section 80-1-8-.03 - Definitions

(a) Animal Waste means a product composed of excreta, with or without bedding materials and/or animal drugs, and collected from poultry, ruminants, or other domestic farm animals.

(b) Processed, as applied to animal waste, means thermally dehydrated, dry stacked, ensiled, oxidized, chemically treated, microbiologically digested, chemically or physically fractionated or treated by other processes which will enable the product to comply with the standards set forth in this regulation.

(c) Dried Poultry Waste means a processed animal waste product composed primarily of feces from commercial poultry, which has been thermally dehydrated to a moisture content not in excess of 15 percent.

(d) Dried Poultry Litter means a processed animal waste product composed primarily of a processed combination of feces from commercial poultry together with litter that was present in the flock production of poultry, which has been thermally dehydrated to a moisture content not in excess of 15 percent.

(e) Dried Ruminant Waste means a processed animal waste product composed primarily of processed ruminant excreta which has been thermally dehydrated to a moisture content not in excess of 15 percent.

(f) Undried Processed Animal Waste Product means a processed animal waste product composed of excreta, with or without litter, from poultry, ruminants or other domestic farm animal and which contains in excess of 15 percent moisture.

(g) Processed Animal Waste Derivative means a product resulting from the chemical, physical, or microbiological alteration of an animal waste. The product must be free of the original unaltered animal waste except moisture. Examples of processed animal waste derivatives are yeasts, algae or other organisms produced and harvested from nonhuman animal wastes. The specific name of each such animal waste derivative product must be descriptive and be approved by the Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries before being offered for sale.

(h) Person means an individual, corporation, partnership, association, or any business entity.

(i) Commissioner means the Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries or his official representative.

Author: Charles H. Barnes