Texas Administrative Code › Title 4 - AGRICULTURE › Part 3 - TEXAS FEED AND FERTILIZER CONTROL SERVICE/OFFICE OF THE TEXAS STATE CHEMIST › Chapter 65 - COMMERCIAL FERTILIZER RULES › Subchapter A - GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 65.1 - Definitions

Current through Reg. 49, No. 28; July 12, 2024
Except where otherwise provided, the terms and definitions
					 adopted by the Association of American Plant Food Control Officials in its last
					 published official publication are adopted by reference as the terms and
					 definitions to control in this part. (The publication is available from the
					 Association of American Plant Food Control Officials.) In addition, the
					 following words and terms, when used in this chapter, shall have the following
					 meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
(1) Available
				  Phosphate/Phosphorous/Phosphoric Acid as P2
				  O5 refer solely and exclusively to those compounds
				  containing orthophosphate, i.e., compounds possessing a formal +5 electrical
				  charge on each of the constituent phosphorous atoms.
(2) Inorganic Fertilizer--A mineral, nutrient
				  source containing less than 5.0% carbonaceous material.
(3) Natural--Materials--animal, plant, or
				  mineral--found solely in or produced solely by nature which have neither been
				  mixed with any synthetic material nor changed from their initial physical state
				  except by washing, air-drying, chopping, grinding, shredding, or pelleting and
				  not changed in its chemical state except by biological degradation or chemical
				  change initiated solely under normal conditions of aging, rainfall, sun-curing
				  or sun-drying, composting, rotting, enzymatic or anaerobic bacterial action, or
				  any combination thereof.
(4)
				  Organic--When applied to a product, to a compound, to a mixture of compounds or
				  to a specific constituent used as an ingredient means that the claim of the
				  product, compound, mixture of compounds or constituent to be organic has been
				  allowed or allowed with restriction by the United States Department of
				  Agriculture's National Organic Program or the Texas Department of Agriculture's
				  Organic Certification Program. (Materials described as organic must still
				  conform to the Texas Commercial Fertilizer Control Act if they are used in
				  fertilizers.)
(5) Person--Any
				  individual, partnership, corporation, association, governmental subdivision, or
				  public or private organization of any character.
(6) Salvage--When applied to plant nutrients
				  or additives, refers only to those products that have been damaged by natural
				  causes, such as fire, water, hail, or windstorm, or by conveyance
				  mishap.
(7) Specialty
				  Fertilizer--Fertilizer distributed primarily for non-farm use, including use on
				  or in home gardens, lawns, shrubbery, flowers, golf courses, municipal parks,
				  cemeteries, greenhouses, or nurseries. The term does not include the excreta of
				  an animal, plant remains, or a mixture of those substances, for which no claim
				  of essential plant nutrients is made.
(8) Acceptable Forms of Identification--The
				  only acceptable form of identification, to provide personal information for the
				  purchase of ammonium nitrate or ammonium nitrate materials, is U.S. government
				  identification issued by a Federal, state, outlying possession, or local
				  government agency that includes a photograph and an expiration date. These may
				  include a valid U.S. passport, a valid U.S. military identification card, a
				  driver's license or non-driver identification card issued by a state, Federal,
				  outlying possession, or local U.S. government agency.