Section 76-19-7 - Adulteration.
76-19-7. Adulteration.
No person shall distribute an adulterated feed. A commercial feed or customer-formula feed shall be deemed to be adulterated:
A. if it bears or contains any poisonous, deleterious or nonnutritive ingredient which may render it injurious to health;
B. if it bears or contains any added poisonous, added deleterious or added nonnutritive substance which is unsafe as determined by the board;
C. if it is or it bears or contains any food additive which is unsafe as determined by the board;
D. if it contains a drug and the methods, facilities or controls used for its manufacture, processing or packaging do not conform to current good manufacturing practice regulations promulgated by the board to assure that the drug meets the requirement of the Commercial Feed Law [76-19-1 to 76-19-14 NMSA 1978] 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 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 New Mexico;
E. if it contains viable weed seeds in amounts exceeding the limits which the board shall establish by rule or regulation;
F. if any valuable constituent has been in whole or in part omitted or abstracted therefrom or any less valuable substance substituted therefor;
G. if its composition or quality falls below or differs from what it is purported to be or is represented to possess by its labeling; or
H. if it contains added hulls, screenings, straw, cobs or other high fiber material, unless the name of each such material is stated on the label.