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<regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".05" citation="COMAR 15.20.13.05" title_num="15" subtitle_num="20" chapter_num="13" heading="Requirements for Utilizing Food Processing Residuals.">
  <text>A person may not utilize food processing residuals in this State unless the material is:</text>
  <paragraph num="A.">
    <text>Registered as a soil conditioner;</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="B.">
    <text>Analyzed by an accredited laboratory, using methods that are:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>Acceptable to the Department; and</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>Part of the laboratory’s scope of accreditation: and</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="C.">
    <text>At a minimum, analyzed:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>For moisture, nutrients (total nitrogen, total phosphate, and total potash), heavy metal contaminants (arsenic, cadmium, chromium, copper, lead, molybdenum, nickel, selenium, and zinc), and polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs, as determined by Method 8270E Semivolatile Organic Compounds by Gas Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry); and</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>As otherwise required by the Department.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
</regulation>