DRAFT AMENDMENT OF THE OFFICIAL STAN DARDS FOR ORDINARY FERTILIZERS,ETC.  
 
Review of the regulations concerning fertilizers of Flesh-Bon e Meal produced with bone, offal and others of cattle  
(1)  The Official Standards of the following types of Ordinary Fe rtilizers are considered to be am ended by the provision of Art icle 3.1 of the Fertilizer Control Law. 
Type of fertilizer  “Byproduct nitrogen fe rtilizer” “Fluid phosphate fertilizer” “ Fuse d sludge ash silicate phosphate fertiliz er” “Byproduct phosphate fertilizer” “Flesh meal” 
“Steamed hoof, horn, and bone meal” “Dried blood, dried blood dust ” “Raw bone meal” “Steamed bone  meal” “Dried microbes, dried sludge” 
“Byproduct organic fertilizer of animal orig in” “Mixed organic fertilizer” “Fused mi xed fertilizer” “Compl ex fertilizer” “Mixed  fertilizer” “Adsorbed 
compound fertilizer” “Byproduct mixed fertili zer” “Fluid mixed fertilizer” “Fused compound fertilizer made from calcined sludge  fertilizers” “Home 
garden-use mixed fertilizer” “Sewerage sludge fertilizer” “Excrement sewage sludge fer tilizer” “Industrial se wage sludge fertil izer” “Mixed sewage 
sludge fertilizer” “Fermented se wage sludge fertilizer” and “Marin e-by-product fermented fertilizer” 
Section to be revised Other limited particulars 
Description of 
content  The particulars required in regard to produc tion processes to be confirmed by the Minist er of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheri es are amended as below: 
(1)  Cattle bones (limited to those for food which are used as an ingredient of fer tilizer after or without using them for food ) are excluded from the 
ingredients required to be confirmed by the Mini ster of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries; and 
(2)  The definition of “bovine vertebral colu mn, a part of cattle which must not be mi xed,” is revised to “bovine vertebral col umn of cattle over the age 
of 30 months (including dorsal root ganglion, and excluding tran sverse processes of the cervical vertebrae, transverse processe s of the thoracic 
vertebrae, transverse proces ses of lumbar vertebrae, spinous processes of the cervic al vertebrae, spinous processes of the thor acic vertebrae, spinous 
processes of the lumbar vertebrae, wings of the sacrum, median sacral crest and vertebrae of the tail)”. 
 
Type of fertilizer “Coated nitr ogen fertilizer” “Byproduct nitr ogen fertilizer” “Fluid nitrogen  fertilizer” “Nitrogen fertilize r mixture” “Coated phosphate fertilizer” “Fused 
sludge ash silicate phosphate fertilizer” “P rocessed phosphate fertilizer” “Byproduc t phosphate fertilizer” “Phosphate fertiliz er mixture” “Flesh meal” 
“Steamed hoof and horn meal” “Steamed hoof, ho rn, and bone Meal” “Steamed feather meal” “Dried blood, dried blood dust” “Raw bo ne meal” 
“Steamed bone meal” “Steamed leather meal” “Processed fish scrap” “Dried microbes, dried sludge” “Byproduct organic fertilizer of animal origin” 
“Fused mixed fertilizer” “Complex fertilizer  made from Animal excrement fertilizers” “C omplex fertilizer made from compost fert ilizers” “Matrix mixed 
fertilizer” “Coated mixed fertilizer ” “Byproduct mixed fertilizer” “Fused compound fertilizer made from calcined sludge fertili zers” “Complex fertilizer 
made from fermented sludge fertilizers” and “Calcined sludge fertilizer”  
Section to be revised Other limited particulars 
Description of 
content For fertilizers produced from parts of cattle and in the case of using th em as an ingredient of another  fertilizer, taking measures set forth by the Minister of 
Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries to prevent cattle, sheep, go ats, and deer from eating them or to control the ingredients is  required.  
Notes: Principal measures set forth by the Minister of  Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries are as follows;   
(a) Use materials designated by the Minister of Agriculture, Fo restry and Fisheries to prevent cattle, etc., from eating the fe rtilizer at the production of such Ordinary fertilizers,;  
(b) The proportion of ingredients not derive d from animals nor plants (including fer tilizers containing only ingredients not de rived from animals nor plants) shall be 50 percent or more of the total weight of all ingredients  at the production of such Ordinary fertilizers,; and 
(c) Attach the supply control report in ever y step from collection of parts of cattle to  shipping them as an ingredient of fert ilizer to producers. 
 (2)  Additional labeling particulars of Ordinary fertilizers. 
As for Ordinary fertilizers which are produced from parts of cattle, it is required to label to indicate storing them out of li vestock, etc., prohibition of feeding them to livestock, 
etc., and prohibition of applying them to pastures, etc.