DRAFT AMENDMENT OF THE OFFICIAL STANDARDS FOR ORDINARY FERTILIZERS , ETC. 
 
1. Review of the regulations concerning fertilizer s of Flesh -Bone Meal produced with bone, offal and others of cattle  
(1) The Official Standards of the following types of Ordinary Fertilizers are considered to be  amended by the provision of Article 3.1 of the Fertilizer Control Law.  
Type of fertilizer  Flesh-Bone Meal 
Section to be 
revised  Other limited particulars  
Description of 
content  The particulars required in regard to productio n processes to be confirmed by the Minister  of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries  are amended  as below:  
(1)  Cattle bones ( limited to those for food which are used as an ingredient of fertilizer after or without using them for food ) are exclude d from the 
ingredients required to be confirmed by the Minister  of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries .  
(2)  The definition of  “bovine vertebral column, a part of cattle which must not be mixed ,” is revised to “bovine vertebral column of cattle over the age 
of 30 mo nths (including dorsal root ganglion, and excluding transverse processes of the cervical vertebrae, transverse processes of the thoracic  
vertebrae , transverse processes of lumbar vertebrae, spinous processes of the cervical vertebrae, spinous processes of the thoracic  vertebrae , 
spinous processes of the lumbar vertebrae, wings of the sacrum, median sacral crest and vertebrae of the tail) ” 
 
Type of fertilizer  Flesh-Bone Meal , Fluid phosphate fertilizer, Mixed organic fertilizer, Complex fertilizer, Mixed fertilizer, Adsorption mixed fertilizer, Fluid mixed fertilizer,  
Home garden -use mixed fertilizer, Sewerage sludge fertilizer, Excrement sewage sludge fertilizer,  Industrial sewage sludge fertilizer, Mixed sewage 
sludge fertilizer, Fermented sewage sludge fe rtilizer, and Marine -by-product fermented fertilizer  
Section to be 
revised  Other limited particulars  
Description of 
content  For Flesh-Bone Meal produced with bone, offal and others of cattle and in the case of using the Flesh-Bone Meal as an ingredient of fertilizer , taking 
measures  set forth by the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries  to prevent cattle, sheep, goat s, and deer from eating it or to control the 
ingredients is required. Such control measures shall be either the following 1 or 2; however, it may be the following 3 if the fertilizer produced using 
Flesh-Bone Meal produced with bone, offal and others of cattle is transferred as an ingredient for other fertilizers to producers , etc. 
(1) At the production of such Ordinary fertilizers, u se materials designated by the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries to prevent  cattle, etc., 
from eating the fertilizer .  
(2) At the production of such Ordinary fertilizers, the ratio of a fertilizer  containing only ingredients not derived from animals  or plants and such 
ingredients , which is blended with such Ordinary fertilizers, shall be 50 percent or more  of the total weight of all ingredients.  
(3) Attach the supply control  report in every step from collection of bone, offal and others of cattle  to ship ping Flesh-Bone Meal produced with them 
as an ingredient of fertilizer to producers.  
(2) Additional labeling particulars of Ordinary fertilizers  
As for Ordinary fertilizers  which are produced using Flesh-Bone Meal produced with bone, offal and others of  cattle, labeling for stor ing them to keep livestock, etc. , from 
eating , prevention of feeding them to livestock, etc. , and appl ying them to pastures, etc. , is required.  2. Another amendment of the Official Standard for the following fertilizers  
The definitio ns of “Complex fertilizer” and “Mixed fertilizer” , types of fertilizers are considered to be amended in the Official Standards by the  provision of the Article 3.1
 of the Fertilizer Control Law.  
 
Compound Fertilizers with six -year-term of validity of regist ration 
 
Type of fertilizer  Minimum content of 
main nutrients ( %) Maximu m permissible 
content of toxic 
substances ( %) Other limited 
particulars  
Complex fertilizer(any of the following fertilizers:  
1.A granulated or molded mixture of two and more of the nit rogen fertilizers, phosphate fertilizers, 
potash fertilizers, organic fertilizers, compound fertilizers, calcium fertilizers, silicate fertilizers(limited to 
silica gel fertilizer), magnesium fertilizers, manganese fertilizers, boron fertilizers, micro -element 
compound fertilizers;  
2.A granulated or molded mixture of fertilizer materials for the complex fertilizer mentioned in 1and one 
and more of rice bran, fermented rice bran, dried algae(powder),dried fermented dung and urine, tansy 
waste, bone ashes, an imal and poul try waste(limited to charcoal o f poultry waste),ashes of burned dung 
of animal and poultry(limited to ashes of burned poultry feces or ashes of burned mixtu re of cattle feces 
and poultry feces ); 
3～5.［omission ］) ［omission ］ ［omission ］ ［omission ］ 
Mixed fertilizer(any of the following fertilizers:  
1. A mixture of two and more of the nitrogen fertilizers, phosphate fertilizers, potash fertilizers, organic 
fertilizers, compound fertilizers, calcium fertilizers, silicate fertilizers(limited to silica  gel fertilizer), 
magnesium fertilizers, manganese fertilizers, boron fertilizers, micro -element compound fertilizers;  
2. .A mixture of fertilizer materials for the mixed fertilizer mentioned in 1and one and more of rice bran, 
fermented rice bran, dried al gae(powder),dried fermented dung and urine, guano(limited to citric 
acid-soluble rate of phosphoric acid must be 50% and more, and limited to neither granulated nor 
molded), tansy waste, bone ashes, animal and poul try waste(limited to charcoal o f poultry waste),ashes 
of burned dung of animal and poultry(limited to ashes of burned poultry feces or ashes of burned mixtu re 
of cattle feces and poultry feces ); 
3.［omission ］)    
Notes : part to be revised is underlined