Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 13, September 23, 2024
Subpart 1.
Definition.
For the purpose of Minnesota Statutes, section
25.37, paragraph
(a), the term "poisonous or deleterious substances" includes, 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 percent for breeding
and dairy cattle; 0.30 percent for slaughter cattle; 0.30 percent for sheep;
0.35 percent for lambs; 0.45 percent for swine; and 0.60 percent 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
percent for breeding and dairy cattle; 0.009 percent for slaughter cattle;
0.006 percent for sheep; 0.01 percent for lambs; 0.015 percent for swine; and
0.035 percent 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 or
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); and
F. artificial color not listed and not used
within the conditions, limitations, and tolerances prescribed for each coloring
substance in Code of Federal Regulations, title 21, part 73A, for food coloring
exempt from certification, or in Code of Federal Regulations, title 21, part
74A, for food coloring subject to certification. No artificial color material
shall be used to enhance the natural color of the feed or feed ingredient
whereby inferiority would be concealed.
Subp. 2.
Weed seeds.
All screenings or by-products of grains and seeds containing
weed seeds, when used in commercial feed or sold as such to the consumer, must
be ground fine enough or otherwise treated to destroy the viability of the weed
seeds so that the level of such viable weed seeds in the finished product does
not exceed the levels specified in Minnesota Statutes, sections
21.71
to
21.78.
