Kentucky Administrative Regulations
Title 12 - AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION
Chapter 3 - Pet Food
Section 12 KAR 3:007 - Definitions for 12 KAR Chapter 3
Universal Citation: 12 KY Admin Regs Service 3:007
Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 9, March 1, 2024
RELATES TO: KRS 250.491-250.631
NECESSITY, FUNCTION, AND CONFORMITY: KRS 250.571 authorizes the Director of the Agricultural Experiment Station to define terms that serve as reference points in the application of labeling requirements to pet foods and specialty pet foods. This administrative regulation establishes definitions for 12 KAR Chapter 3.
Section 1. Definitions.
(1) "All life stages" means gestation or
lactation, growth, and adult maintenance life stages.
(2) "Family" means a group of products that
are nutritionally adequate for any or all life stages based on the products
nutritional similarity to a lead product that has been successfully test-fed
according to an AAFCO feeding protocol.
(3) "Immediate container":
(a) Means the unit, can, box, tin, bag, or
other receptacle or covering in which a pet food or specialty pet food is
displayed for sale to retail purchasers; and
(b) Does not mean containers used as shipping
containers.
(4)
"Ingredient statements" means a collective and contiguous listing on the label
of the ingredients of which the pet food or specialty pet food is
composed.
(5) "Principal display
panel" means the part of a label that is most likely to be displayed,
presented, shown, or examined under normal and customary conditions of display
for retail sale.
STATUTORY AUTHORITY: KRS 250.571
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