Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 6, March 15, 2024
(1) For the purpose of
section
266.180(1),
RSMo, the term "poisonous or deleterious
substances" include, but are 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 fluorine exceeds twenty hundredths percent (0.20%) for breeding and dairy
cattle, thirty hundredths percent (0.30%) for slaughter cattle, thirty
hundredths percent (0.30%) for sheep, thirty-five hundredths percent (0.35%)
for lambs, forty-five hundredths percent (0.45%) for swine and sixty hundredths
percent (0.60%) for poultry;
(B)
Fluorine-bearing ingredients when used in those amounts so that they raise the
fluorine content of the total ration (exclusive of roughage) above the
following amounts: four thousandths percent (0.004%) for breeding and dairy
cattle, nine thousandths percent (0.009%) for slaughter cattle, six thousandths
percent (0.006%) for sheep, one hundredth percent (0.01%) for lambs, fifteen
thousandths percent (0.015%) for swine and three hundredths percent (0.3%) 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 fifty milligrams (50 mg) of
fluorine per one hundred pounds (100 lbs.) of body weight;
(D) Soybean meal, flakes or pellets, or other
vegetable meals, flakes or pellets which have been extracted with
trichloroethylene or other chlorinated solvents; and
(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 B-1
(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 those weed seeds
so that the finished product contains no viable prohibited weed seeds and not
more than one-half percent (0.5%) viable noxious weed seeds.
*Original authority 1972, amended 1993, 1995,
1997.
