New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 1 - DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND MARKETS › Chapter VI - Food Control › Subchapter C - Food and Food Products (article 17 Agriculture and Markets Law) › Part 257 - Manufacture And Distribution Of Commercial Feed › Section 257.3 - Brand and product names

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
(a) The brand name and product name of any
				  commercial feed shall be appropriate for the intended use of the feed and shall
				  not be misleading. If either such name indicates the feed is made for a
				  specific use, the character of the feed shall conform therewith; for example, a
				  mixture labeled "dairy feed" shall be suitable for that purpose.
(b) Commercial, brand or trade names shall
				  not be permitted in any guaranteed analysis or ingredient listing.
(c) The name of any commercial feed shall not
				  be derived from one or more ingredients of a mixture to the exclusion of other
				  ingredients and shall not represent any components of a mixture unless all
				  components are included in the name; provided, that if any ingredient or
				  combination of ingredients is intended to impart a distinctive characteristic
				  to the product which is of significance to the purchaser, the name of that
				  ingredient or combination of ingredients may be used as a part of the brand
				  name or product name if the ingredient or combination of ingredients is
				  quantitatively guaranteed in the guaranteed analysis, and the brand name or
				  product name is not otherwise false or misleading.
(d) The word "protein" shall not be permitted
				  in the product name of any feed that contains added non-protein
				  nitrogen.
(e) When the brand name
				  or product name carries a percentage value, it shall signify actual protein
				  and/or equivalent protein content only, even though it may not explicitly
				  modify the percentage with the word "protein"; provided, that other percentage
				  values may be permitted if they are followed by the proper description and
				  conform to good labeling practice. When a figure is used in any brand name
				  (except in mineral, vitamin, or other products where the protein guarantee is
				  nil or unimportant), it shall be preceded by the word "number" or some other
				  suitable designation.
(f) Single
				  ingredient feeds shall have a product name in accordance with the official
				  definitions of feed ingredients as recognized by AAFCO unless the commissioner
				  prescribes otherwise.
(g) The word
				  "vitamin", or any contraction thereof, or any word suggesting vitamin, can be
				  used only in the name of a feed which is represented to be a vitamin
				  supplement, and which is labeled with the minimum content of each vitamin
				  declared, as provided in section
				  257.4(c) 
				  of this Part.
(h) The term
				  "mineralized" shall not be used in the name of any feed, except for "trace
				  mineralized salt". When the latter expression is used, the product shall
				  contain significant amounts of trace minerals which are recognized as essential
				  for animal nutrition.
(i) The terms
				  "meat" and "meat by-products" shall be qualified to designate the animal from
				  which the meat or meat by-products are derived unless the meat or meat
				  by-products are from cattle, swine, sheep and goats.