New Jersey § 4:4-20
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§ 4:4-20.
A commercial feed shall be deemed to be adulterated: a. (1) If it bears or contains any poisonous or deleterious substance which may render
it injurious to health; but in case the substance is not an added substance, such
commercial feed shall not be considered adulterated under this subsection if the quantity
of such substance in such commercial feed does not ordinarily render it injurious
to health; or (2) If it bears or contains any added poisonous, added deleterious, or added nonnutritive
substance which is unsafe within the meaning of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic
Act; 1 or (3) If it is, or it bears or contains any food additive which is unsafe within the
meaning of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act; or (4) If it is a raw agricultural commodity and it bears or contains a pesticide chemical
which is unsafe within the meaning of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, provided
that where a pesticide chemical has been used in or on a raw agricultural commodity
in conformity with an exemption granted or a tolerance prescribed under 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 the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. (5) If it is an artificial color additive that has been deemed to be unsafe within
the meaning of section 706 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. 2 b. If any valuable constituent has been in whole or in part omitted or abstracted
therefrom or any less valuable substance substituted therefor. c. If its composition or quality falls below or differs from that which it is purported
or is represented to possess by its labeling. d. If it contains a drug and the methods used in or the facilities or controls used
for its manufacture, processing, or packaging do not conform to current good manufacturing
practice regulations promulgated by the State board to assure that the drug meets
the requirement of this act as to safety and has the identity and strength and meets
the quality and purity characteristics which it purports or is represented to possess. In promulgating such regulations the State board shall adopt the current good manufacturing
practice regulations for medicated feed premixes and for medicated feeds established
under authority of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, unless it determines
that they are not appropriate to the conditions which exist in this State. e. If it contains viable weed seeds in amounts exceeding the limits which the State
board shall establish by rule or regulation. 1
21 U.S.C.A. §§ 301 to 392. 2
21 U.S.C.A. § 376.
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