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RA 1556 (Livestock and Poultry Feeds Act) Section 3

RA 1556 (Livestock and Poultry Feeds Act) Section 3

Definitions.

Section 3

SEC. 3. Definitions.—For the purpose of this Act, the following terms shall mean: "Secretary" means the Secretary of Agriculture and Natural Resources. "Director" means the Director, Bureau of Animal Industry. "Livestock" means and includes horses, cattle, carabaos, sheep, goats, swine, rabbits, poultry and such other animals or birds as the Secretary may, from time to time by regulation, prescribe. "Feeds" or "Feeding Stuff" shall include all such articles used for the purpose of feeding purporting to supply proteins, carbohydrates, fats, minerals, vitamins, antibiotics and/or correcting nutritional disorders. Such articles may be locally produced or imported, mixed or in the form of simple ingredients. "Owner" is the person, firm, partnership, association or corporation applying for the accord registration under this Act. "Brand" means any distinctive mark or name applied to a feed or feeding stuff. "Inspector" is any person authorized to enforce the provisions of this Act. "Package" means sack, bag, barrel, bin or any other container for feeds. "Label" means and includes any written, printed or graphic matter attached or affixed to any package, bale or bundle of feeds. "Regulation" means rules prescribed under the authority of this Act. "Analyst" means any official analyst appointed under this Act. "Ingredients" means any single article of feed or feeding stuff which enters into the composition of a ration, concentrate, or supplement. "Mixture" means any combination of two or more food ingredients used in the manufacture of feeding stuff. "Concentrates" shall apply to no materials other than those known as concentrates, and shall include linseed meals, cotton-seed meals, pea meals, bean meals, peanut meals, coconut meals, gluten meals, velvet bean meals, soya bean meals, dried yeast grains, dried, vinegar grains, corn germ meal, feeding molasses, gluten feeds, cotton seed feeds, maize feeds, velvet bean feeds, peanut feeds, dried distillers' grains, dried brewers' grains, malt sprout, hominy feeds, rice meals, corn and oat chops, corn feed meal, corn bran, corn and cob meals, wheat bran, wheat middlings, wheat feed, rye feed, rye middlings, buckwheat middlings and buckwheat feed, ground beef or fish scraps, meat meals, meat and bone meals mixed, dried blood, milk by-products, mixed feeds, compounded feeds, condimental stock and poultry feeds, proprietary or trade-marked stock and poultry feeds, and all other materials of a similar nature; but shall not include the materials denned in this article as roughages, the whole seed nor pure whole seed nor pure whole grains ground together nor the unmixed meals, made directly from the entire grains of wheat, rye, barley, oat, corn, buckwheat and boom corn, nor malt sprouts, when sold as such by the maltster at retail, nor ground or cracked bone not mixed with any other substance nor shall it include poultry feeds consisting of whole or whole and cracked grains mixed together, with or without grit, oyster shells or charcoal, when all the ingredients may be identified by the naked eye. "Roughages" shall include dried and ground hays and straws, dried and ground corn stalks or other parts of the corn plant not included in the grain, dried beet pulp, oat hulls, barley hulls, clipped oat by-product, sorghum plant by-products and flax plant by-products, cotton seed hulls, buckwheat hulls, cocoa shells, grain screenings or other materials of a similar character. This shall not include whole ground grains not mixed with any other substances.

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