Title 6. Commercial Feed and Fertilizer and Agricultural Liming Materials — Subtitle 1. Maryland Commercial Feed Law

The feed contains any poisonous or deleterious substance that may render the feed injurious to human or animal health, except when the substance is not added to the feed and the quantity of the substance does not ordinarily render it injurious to human or animal health;

A valuable constituent is omitted or abstracted wholly or partially from it or any less valuable substance is substituted for it;

Its composition or quality falls below or differs from that which it is purported or is represented to possess by its labeling;

The feed contains any added poisonous, added deleterious, or added nonnutritive substance which is unsafe;

The feed consists, in whole or part, of any filthy, putrid, or decomposed substance, or is otherwise unfit for feed; or

The feed has been prepared, packed, or held under unsanitary conditions where the feed may have become contaminated with filth or rendered injurious to human or animal health.

Unmixed whole seeds and physically altered entire unmixed seeds that are not chemically altered or adulterated;

Commodities such as hay, straw, stover, silage, cobs, husks, hulls, and individual chemical compounds or substances when the commodities, compounds, or substances are not intermixed with other materials or adulterated; or

A material or combination of materials that is exempt from this definition in regulations adopted by the Secretary.

Its labeling is false or misleading in any particular;

It is distributed under the name of another feed;

It is not labeled as required in §§ 6–109, 6–110, and 6–111 of this subtitle and in the departmental rules and regulations;

It purports to be or is represented as a feed ingredient, or if it purports to contain or is represented as containing a feed ingredient, unless the feed ingredient conforms to any definition of identity, prescribed by departmental rules and regulations, which shall give due regard to commonly accepted definitions, such as those issued by the Association of American Feed Control Officials, Inc.; or

Any word, statement, or other information, required to appear on the label or labeling, is not placed on it prominently and conspicuously, as compared with other words, statements, designs, or devices in the labeling, and it is not in terms that render it likely to be read and understood by the ordinary individual under customary conditions of purchase and use.

Inspect for wholesomeness any commercial feed donated to a nonprofit corporation, organization, or association; and

Establish procedures for handling commercial feed donated to any nonprofit corporation, organization, or association.

Suspend the program for a reasonable period of time; or

Recommend to the General Assembly that the requirement be modified or terminated.

Allow a person who purchases commercial equine feed in the State to request reimbursement of any assessment that was paid on the feed; and

Require that a purchaser of feed be notified, at the point of sale, of the possibility of reimbursement.

Roxarsone; or

Any other additive that contains arsenic.

The net weight;

The name or brand under which the commercial feed is distributed;

The common or usual name of each ingredient used in manufacturing the commercial feed, unless the Secretary by rule or regulation, permits the use of a collective term for a group of ingredients which perform the same function;

The name and address of the person responsible for distributing the commercial feed; and

The guaranteed analysis of the commercial feed, listing the minimum percentage of crude protein, minimum percentage of crude fat, and maximum percentage of crude fiber, for mineral feeds the list shall include the following if added: minimum and maximum percentage of calcium (Ca), minimum percentage of phosphorous (P), minimum percentage of iodine (I), and minimum and maximum percentage of salt (NaCl). Other substances or elements, determinable by laboratory methods, may be guaranteed if permission of the Secretary is obtained. If any feed nutrient is guaranteed, it shall be subject to inspection and analysis in accordance with the methods and rules and regulations adopted by the Secretary. Products distributed solely as mineral or vitamin supplements and guaranteed as specified in this section need not show guarantees for protein, fat, or fiber.