Adulterants

PURPOSE: This rule defines and limits some specific adulterants included in section 266.180, RSMo. (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. AUTHORITY: section 266.195, RSMo Supp. 1997.* Original rule filed Jan. 16, 1975, effective Feb. 1, 1975. Amended: Filed May, 13, 1986, effective Sept. 1, 1986. Amended: Filed Nov. 17, 1997, effective June 30, 1998. *Original authority 1972, amended 1993, 1995, 1997.