Utah Administrative Code
Topic - Agriculture and Food
Title R68 - Plant Industry
Rule R68-2 - Utah Commercial Feed Act Governing Feed
Section R68-2-12 - Adulterants

Universal Citation: UT Admin Code R 68-2-12

Current through Bulletin 2024-06, March 15, 2024

A. For the purpose of Section 4-12-2, the terms "poisonous or deleterious substances" include but are not limited to the following:

1. Fluorine and any 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.

2. Fluorine bearing ingredients when used in such amounts that they raise the fluorine content of the total ration 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.

3. Soybean meal, flakes or pellets or other vegetable meal, flakes or pellets which have been extracted with trichlorethylene or other chlorinated solvents.

4. 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 B1 (Thiamine).

5. Aflatoxin content of any feed ingredient which exceeds 20 parts per billion and/or any quantity established by Federal Statutes or Guidelines.

B. A commercial feed shall be deemed to be adulterated if it contains a drug and the methods used in or the facilities or controls used for its manufacture, processing or packaging do not conform to current good manufacturing practice rules for medicated feeds and for medicated premixes as published in the Code of Federal Regulations, Title 21, Parts 225 and 226 Sections 225.1-225.115 and 226.1-226.115, respectively.

C. All screenings or by-products of grain and seeds containing weed seeds, when used in commercial feed or sold as such to the ultimate consumer shall be ground fine enough or other wise treated to destroy the viability of such weed seeds so that the finished product contains no more than six viable prohibited noxious weed seeds per pound.

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