California Code of Regulations
Title 3 - Food and Agriculture
Division 4 - Plant Industry
Chapter 2 - Field Crops
Subchapter 2 - Commercial Feed
Article 14 - Definitions and Standards
Section 2783 - Cottonseed Products

(a) Cottonseed Meal, Mechanically Extracted, is the product obtained by finely grinding the cake which remains after removal of most of the oil from cottonseed by a mechanical extraction process. It shall contain not less than 36.0 percent crude protein.

(b) Cottonseed Meal, Solvent Extracted, is the product obtained by finely grinding the flakes which remain after removal of most of the oil from cottonseed by a solvent extraction process. It shall contain not less than 36.0 percent crude protein.

(c) Cottonseed Cake, Mechanically Extracted, is the unground product composed of the kernel and such portions of the lint, hull, and oil as remain after removal of most of the oil from cotton seed by a mechanical process. It shall contain not less than 36.0 percent crude protein.

(d) Cottonseed Flakes, Mechanically Extracted, is the unground product, composed of the kernel and such portions of the lint, hull, and oil as remain after removal of the oil from cottonseed by a mechanical extraction process. It shall contain not less than 36.0 percent crude protein.

(e) Cottonseed Flakes, Solvent Extracted, is the unground product, composed of the kernel and such portions of the lint, hull, and oil as remain after removal of the oil from cottonseed by a solvent extraction process. It shall contain not less than 36.0 percent crude protein.

(f) Whole-Pressed Cottonseed, Mechanically Extracted, is composed of sound, mature, clean, delinted, and unhulled cottonseed, from which most of the oil has been removed by mechanical pressure. It shall be designated and sold by its crude protein content. If ground, it must be so designated.

(g) Low Gossypol Cottonseed Meal, Mechanically Extracted, is a meal in which the gossypol is not more than 0.04 percent free gossypol.

(h) Low Gossypol Cottonseed Meal, Solvent Extracted, is a meal in which the gossyol is not more than 0.04 percent free gossypol.

(i) Cottonseed Hulls is the outer covering of the cottonseed. When used in a mixture, the maximum percent present shall be stated.

(j) Whole cottonseed is seed remaining after removal of fiber in the ginning process. It shall contain not more than 15.0 percent free fatty acids in the oil. It shall contain not more than 13.0 percent moisture and not more than 2.0 percent foreign material. It shall be labeled to include the maximum percent ash.

(k) Prime whole cottonseed is seed remaining after the removal of fiber in the ginning process. It shall contain not more than 3.0 percent free fatty acids in the oil. It shall contain not more than 13.0 percent moisture and not more than 2.0 percent foreign material. It shall be labeled to include the maximum percent ash.

(l) Cracked or ground pima is pima cottonseed that has been processed but from which the oil has not been extracted. It shall be labeled to include the maximum percent ash.