Section 287.525 - Requirements as to bags and containers for commercial feed; document for customer-formula feed; label for commercial feed.
MICHIGAN COMMERCIAL FEED LAW (EXCERPT)
Act 120 of 1975
287.525 Requirements as to bags and containers for commercial feed; document for customer-formula feed; label for commercial feed.
Sec. 5.
(1) A person shall not distribute in this state a commercial feed, except a customer-formula feed, in a bag or other container unless the bag or container has the following placed on or affixed to it in legibly written or printed form:
(a) Net weight of the contents.
(b) The product name and brand name, if any.
(c) The name and address of the licensee.
(d) The guaranteed analysis stated in those terms as the director by rule determines is required to advise the user of the composition of the feed or to support claims made in the labeling. The substances or elements shall be determinable by laboratory methods such as the methods published by the American association of official analytical chemists.
(e) The common or usual name of each ingredient used in the commercial feed. The director, by rule, may permit the use of a collective term for a group of ingredients all of which perform a similar function or eliminate the requirement for listing of feed ingredients when the listing no longer serves a useful purpose.
(f) Adequate directions for use for commercial feeds containing drugs and for other feeds the director by rule requires as necessary for their safe and effective use.
(g) Precautionary statements the director by rule determines are necessary for the safe and effective use of the commercial feed.
(h) The date of manufacture, processing, packing, or repacking, or a code that permits the determination of the date or enables the segregation of specific feedlots if the director finds segregation is necessary for the enforcement of this act.
(2) A person shall not distribute a customer-formula feed in this state unless the purchaser on delivery is supplied with a document which includes the following information:
(a) The name and address of the mixer.
(b) The name and address of the purchaser.
(c) The date of delivery.
(d) The product name and brand name, if any, and number of pounds of each commercial feed used in the mixture and the name and number of pounds of the other ingredients added.
(e) Adequate directions for use for all commercial feeds containing drugs and for other feeds the director by rule requires as necessary for their safe and effective use.
(f) Precautionary statements the director by rule determines are necessary for the safe and effective use of the commercial feed.
(3) A person shall not distribute a commercial feed in this state in bulk unless the purchaser on delivery is supplied with a label in compliance with subsection (l).
History: 1975, Act 120, Imd. Eff June 26, 1975