California Code of Regulations › Title 3 - Food and Agriculture › Division 4 - Plant Industry › Chapter 2 - Field Crops › Subchapter 2 - Commercial Feed › Article 14 - Definitions and Standards › Section 2773.1 - Alfalfa Products

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
(a) The
					 name of an alfalfa product may include the word "dehydrated" only when the
					 product is prepared entirely from freshly cut alfalfa having a moisture content
					 of not less than 70.0 percent before being artificially dried at a temperature
					 of not less than 212 degrees Fahrenheit for a period of not more than 45
					 minutes. Dehydrated alfalfa products shall contain not less than 15.0 percent
					 crude protein and not more than 28.0 percent crude fiber. If the product does
					 not meet the above standards it shall be called a dehydrated forage
					 product.
(b) Chopped Alfalfa is the
					 entire alfalfa hay, chopped but not ground finely enough to become a meal,
					 without the addition of any alfalfa stems, alfalfa straw, or other foreign
					 material, or removal of the leaves and containing not less than 15.0 percent
					 protein and not more than 30.0 percent crude fiber.
(c) Alfalfa Meal is obtained from the
					 grinding of the entire alfalfa hay, without the addition of any alfalfa stems,
					 alfalfa straw, or foreign material, or the removal of the leaves and containing
					 not less than 15.0 percent protein and not more than 30.0 percent crude
					 fiber.
(d) Alfalfa Leaf Meal is the
					 ground product consisting chiefly of leafy materials separated from alfalfa hay
					 containing not more than 18.0 percent crude fiber.
(e) Forage Meal is a mixture of alfalfa hay
					 with alfalfa straw or other hays, straws or legumes and contains not less than
					 8.0 percent protein and not more than 38.0 percent fiber.
(f) Alfalfa Stem Meal is the ground product
					 remaining after the separation of the leafy material from alfalfa hay or meal.
					 When used in a mixture, the maximum percent of stem meal shall be stated in the
					 list of ingredients.
(g) Alfalfa
					 pellets, cubes, wafers, and other extruded forms of alfalfa are obtained from
					 processing the entire alfalfa, without the addition of any alfalfa stems,
					 alfalfa straw or foreign material and shall contain not less than 15.0 percent
					 crude protein and not more than 30.0 percent crude fiber.
(h) Alfalfa Nutrient Concentrate is the
					 product obtained from the extracted juice of freshly cut alfalfa, by
					 coagulation, separation from the alfalfa solubles and subsequent dehydration.
					 The product should express both protein and Xanthophyll guarantees.
(i) Concentrated Alfalfa Solubles is the
					 product obtained by the concentration of the liquid remaining after the
					 separation of Alfalfa Nutrient Concentrate from the juice of freshly cut
					 alfalfa. The moisture level should not exceed 50.0 percent.
(j) If the alfalfa products defined in this
					 section do not comply with the standards indicated in every respect, the term
					 "forage" must be substituted for the word "alfalfa" in the name of the
					 product.
1.
						Amendment of subsection (h) filed 11-4-76; effective thirtieth day thereafter
						(Register 76, No. 45).
2. Editorial correction of NOTE filed 8-17-82
						(Register 82, No. 34).
3. Amendment filed 1-30-2002; operative
						1-30-2002 pursuant to Government Code section
						11343.4
						(Register 2002, No. 5).
Note: Authority cited: Sections
						  407
						  and
						  14902,
						  Food and Agricultural Code. Reference: Sections
						  14992
						  and
						  15011,
						  Food and Agricultural Code.