Code of Colorado Regulations
1200 - Department of Agriculture
1202 - Inspection and Consumer Services Division
8 CCR 1202-4 - FERTILIZERS AND SOIL CONDITIONERS
Part 2 - DEFINITIONS

2.1 The Official Publication of the Association of American Plant Food Control Officials, Inc. shall mean the 2022 Official Publication of the Association of American Plant Food Control Officials, Inc. ("AAPFCO"), effective January 1, 2022. This Rule incorporates by reference the AAPFCO standards and guidelines. The Rule does not adopt any later amendments to, or editions of, the AAPFCO standards and guidelines. A copy of the Official Publication of the Association of American Plant Food Control Officials, Inc. shall be kept In the Department of Agriculture, located at 305 Interlocken Parkway, Broomfield Colorado 80021, and shall be open to public inspection, and available for copying, during normal business hours. A copy of the official publication shall also be available online at: http://www.aapfco.org/. This, and any other material that is incorporated by reference, may be examined at any state publications depository library.

2.2 These Rules incorporate the official terms and official fertilizer definitions as published in the 2022 Official Publication of the Association of American Plant Food Control Officials, Inc. (AAPFCO), , except as the Commissioner of Agriculture ("Commissioner") designates otherwise in specific cases.

2.3 "Soil conditioner" means a substance or a mixture of substances intended to improve the chemical, physical, biochemical, or biological characteristics of the soil for the purpose of growing plants. "Soil conditioner" is synonymous with "soil amendment." It does not include commercial fertilizers, plant amendments, untreated manures, compost and treated manures that are distributed without soil conditioner labeling claims.

2.4 "Potting Soil" and "Planting Mix" means a material suitable for holding and growing plants in containers. It may include small amounts of fertilizer or pesticide.

2.5 "Beneficial Substances or Compounds" means any substance or compound, other than primary, secondary and micro plant nutrients, that can be demonstrated by peer reviewed scientific research to be beneficial to one or more species or plants, when applied exogenously.

2.6 "Ingredient Statement" means a collective and contiguous listing of the ingredients of which a soil conditioner or plant amendment is composed listed in descending order by their predominance by volume or weight as appropriate in non-quantitative terms.