2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 22 - Agriculture. Domestic Animals › Chapter 428a - Commercial and Customer-Formula Feeds › Section 22-118o. - Adulteration of commercial feed.

A commercial feed shall be deemed to be adulterated: (1) If it bears or contains any poisonous or deleterious substance which may render it injurious to health, except that, if the substance is not an added substance, the feed shall not be considered adulterated under this section if the quantity of such substance in the feed does not ordinarily render it injurious to health; (2) if it bears or contains any added poisonous, added deleterious or added nonnutritive substance which is unsafe within the meaning of Section 406 of the federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, other than one which is (A) a pesticide chemical in or on a raw agricultural commodity or (B) a food additive; (3) if it is, or bears or contains any food additive which is unsafe within the meaning of Section 409 of the federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act; (4) if it is a raw agricultural commodity and it bears or contains a pesticide chemical which is unsafe within the meaning of Section 408(a) of the federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act except that, if a pesticide chemical has been used in or on a raw agricultural commodity in conformity with an exemption granted or a tolerance prescribed under Section 408 of the federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act and such raw agricultural commodity has been subjected to processing such as canning, cooking, freezing, dehydrating or milling, the residue of such pesticide chemical remaining in or on such processed feed shall not be deemed unsafe if such residue in or on the raw agricultural commodity has been removed to the extent possible in good manufacturing practice and the concentration of such residue in the processed feed is not greater than the tolerance prescribed for the raw agricultural commodity unless the feeding of such processed feed will result or is likely to result in a pesticide residue in the edible product of the animal which is unsafe within the meaning of Section 408(a) of the federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act; (5) if it is, or bears or contains, any color additive which is unsafe within the meaning of Section 706 of the federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act; (6) if it is, or bears or contains, any new animal drug which is unsafe within the meaning of Section 512 of the federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act; (7) if it consists in whole or in part of any filthy, putrid or decomposed substance, or if it is otherwise unfit for feed; (8) if it has been prepared, packed or held under unsanitary conditions whereby it may have become contaminated with filth, or whereby it may have been rendered injurious to health; (9) if it is, in whole or in part, the product of a diseased animal or of an animal which has died otherwise than by slaughter which death has rendered the product unsafe within the meaning of Section 402(a)(1) or (2) of the federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act; (10) if its container is composed, in whole or in part, of any poisonous or deleterious substance which may render the contents injurious to health; (11) if it has been intentionally subjected to radiation, unless the use of the radiation was in conformity with the regulation or exemption in effect pursuant to Section 409 of the federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act; (12) if any valuable constituent has been, in whole or in part, omitted or abstracted from the feed or any less valuable substance substituted for the feed; (13) if its composition or quality falls below or differs from that which it is purported or is represented to possess by its labeling; (14) if it contains a drug and the methods used in, or the facilities or controls used for, manufacture, processing, or packaging of such drug do not conform to current good manufacturing practice regulations adopted by the Commissioner of Agriculture, in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54, which shall assure that the drug meets the requirements of sections 22-118k to 22-118u, inclusive, as to safety, is properly identified and has the strength and meets the quality and purity characteristics which it purports or is represented to possess. In adopting such regulations, the commissioner shall adopt the current good manufacturing practice regulations for Type A Medicated Articles and Type B and Type C Medicated Feeds established under authority of the federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, unless he determines that they are not appropriate to the conditions which exist in this state; or (15) if it contains viable weed seeds in amounts exceeding the limits which the commissioner shall establish by such regulations.
(P.A. 98-69, S. 5, 14; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6, S. 146(e); P.A. 04-189, S. 1.)
History: P.A. 98-69 effective July 1, 1998; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6 replaced Commissioner of Agriculture with Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Protection, effective July 1, 2004; P.A. 04-189 repealed Sec. 146 of June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6, thereby reversing the merger of the Departments of Agriculture and Consumer Protection, effective June 1, 2004 (Revisor's note: In 2009, a reference to repealed Sec. 22-118v in Subdiv. (14) was changed editorially by the Revisors to “22-118u” for accuracy).