Kansas Administrative Regulations
Agency 4 - DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Article 3 - COMMERCIAL FEEDING STUFFS DEFINITIONS
Section 4-3-5 - The name
Universal Citation: KS Admin Regs 4-3-5
Current through Register Vol. 43, No. 52, December 26, 2024
(a) The name shall not be misleading or deceptive, or tend to mislead or deceive as to the materials of which the commercial feeding stuffs is composed. The name of a non-medicated feed shall be considered misleading or deceptive if:
(1) It includes or suggests the name of one
or more but not all of the ingredients, even though the names of all these
ingredients are stated elsewhere on the label;
(2) It indicates or suggests that the
commercial feeding stuffs is intended or adapted for a specific use, unless the
character, quality and nutritive composition of the product is satisfactory for
the purpose;
(3) It contains the
word "vitamin" or a contraction of it, or any word suggesting vitamin, unless
the product is represented solely as a vitamin supplement and is labeled with
the minimum vitamin content guaranteed as specified in K.A.R. 4-3-8;
(4) The word "dehydrated" appears in the name
of an alfalfa product or in connection with it, unless the product has been
produced from the freshly cut alfalfa plant, having a moisture content of not
less than fifty (50) percent and had been artificially dried at a temperature
of at least one hundred (100) degrees centigrade or two hundred and fifteen
(215) degrees fahrenheit for a period of not more than forty (40) minutes and
containing no admixture of sun-cured products;
(5) The germ has been wholly or partially
removed from the product, unless the word "degermed" precedes the name;
(6) The word "defluorinated" is
used as a part of it, and the product contains more than one (1) part of
fluorine (F) to forty (40) parts of phosphorus (P);
(7) Superlative, ambiguous, or doubtful terms
are used as a part of it, such as "perfect" or "best," unless followed by the
word "brand"; and
(8) The word
"iodized" is used as a part of it unless the product contains more than .007%
iodine (I), uniformly distributed.
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