Code of Massachusetts Regulations
330 CMR - DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURAL RESOURCES
Title 330 CMR 14.00 - Manufacture, Sale, And Distribution Of Commercial Feed
Section 14.10 - Adulterants
Universal Citation: 330 MA Code of Regs 330.14
Current through Register 1531, September 27, 2024
(1) For the purposes of M.G.L. c. 128, § 54, the term "poisonous or deleterious substances" shall include but is not limited to the following:
(a) Fluorine and
any mineral or mineral mixture which is to be used directly for the feeding of
domestic animals and in which the fluorine exceeds 0.20% for breeding and dairy
cattle; 0.30% for slaughter cattle; 0.30% for sheep; 0.35% for lambs; 0.45% for
swine; and 0.60% for poultry;
(b)
Fluorine bearing ingredients when used in such amounts that they raise the
fluorine content of the total ration (exclusive of roughage) above the
following amounts: 0.004% for breeding and dairy cattle; 0.009% for slaughter
cattle; 0.006% for sheep; 0.01% for lambs; 0.015% for swine and 0.03% for
poultry;
(c) Fluorine bearing
ingredients incorporated in any feed that is fed directly to cattle, sheep or
goats consuming roughage (with or without) limited amounts of grain, that
results in a daily fluorine intake in excess of 50 milligrams of Fluorine per
100 pounds of body weight;
(d)
Soybean meal, flakes or pellets or other vegetable meals, flakes or pellets
which have been extracted with trichlorethylene or other chlorinated
solvents;
(e) Sulfur dioxide,
Sulfurous acid, and salts of sulfurous acid when used in or on feeds or feed
ingredients which are considered or reported to be a significant source of
vitamin B1 (Thiamine).
(2) All screenings or by-products of grains and seeds containing weed seeds, when used in commercial feed or sold as such to the ultimate consumer, shall be ground fine enough or otherwise treated to destroy the viability of such weed seeds so that the finished product contains no more than four viable prohibited weed seeds per pound and not more than 100 viable restricted weed seeds per pound as defined by the M.G.L. c. 128 and the regulations promulgated thereunder.
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