Cal. Code Regs. tit. 3 § 2778

Current through Register 2025 Notice Reg. No. 2, January 10, 2025

Section 2778 - Collective Terms

(a) Collective terms are not allowed in labeling of commercial feed, except for the terms listed below.

(b) Grain Products. May be used as an ingredient name. However, when one or more grains are named, no substitution shall be made. Any of the normal forms such as whole, ground, cracked, screen cracked, flaked, kibbled, toasted, or heat processed are acceptable. A statement of form is optional. Grain Products may include one or more of the following:

(1) Grain Sorghums: Ground Grain Sorghum, Rolled Grain Sorghum.

(2) Maize Products: Corn Feed Meal, Ground Corn, Cracked Corn, Screened Cracked Corn, Flaked Corn, Toasted Corn Flakes, Kibbled Corn.

(3) Oat Products: Mixed Feed Oats.

(4) Rice Products: Ground Brown Rice, Ground Rough Rice or Ground Paddy, Chipped Rice, Broken Rice, Brewers Rice.

(5) Whole Grains: Barley, Oats, Rye, Triticale, Wheat.

(c) Roughage Products. May be used as an ingredient name only in labeling medicated, mineral and vitamin premixes if the labeled recommended use level of the premix in the total ration is specified to be one percent or less of the total ration. Roughage Products may include one or more of the following:

(1) Almond Hull Products: Almond Hulls.

(2) Barley Products: Barley Hulls, Barley Mill By-Product.

(3) Brewers Products: Malt Hulls.

(4) Citrus Products: Dried Citrus Pulp, Dried Citrus Meal, Citrus Seed Meal.

(5) Corn Products: Corn Cob Fractions, Ground Corn Cob.

(6) Cottonseed Products: Cottonseed Hulls.

(7) Human Food By-Products: Dried Apple Pectin Pulp, Dried Apple Pomace, Dried Tomato Pomace.

(8) Miscellaneous Products: Buckwheat Hulls, Ground Straw, Psyllium Seed Husk.

(9) Molasses and Molasses Products: Bagasse, Beet Pulp, Dried, Plain.

(10) Oat Products: Oat Hulls, Clipped Oat By-Product, Oat Mill By-Product.

(11) Other Oilseed Products: Sunflower Hulls, Flax Straw By-Product, Peanut Hulls.

(12) Rice Products: Rice Hulls, Rice Mill By-Product.

(13) Rye Products: Rye Mill Run.

(14) Soybean Products: Soybean Hulls, Soybean Mill Feed, Soybean Mill Run.

Cal. Code Regs. Tit. 3, § 2778

Note: Authority cited: Sections 407, 14902 and 14992, Food and Agricultural Code. Reference: Section 14992(e), Food and Agricultural Code.

Note: Authority cited: Sections 407 and 14902, Food and Agricultural Code. Reference: Sections 14992 and 15011, Food and Agricultural Code.

1. Editorial correction of NOTE filed 8-17-82 (Register 82, No. 34).
2. New subsection (b) and subsection relettering filed 1-30-2002; operative 1-30-2002 pursuant to Government Code section 11343.4(Register 2002, No. 5).
3. Repealer and new section heading and section filed 11-12-2024 as an emergency; operative 11/12/2024 (Register 2024, No. 46). A Certificate of Compliance must be transmitted to OAL by 5-12-2025 or emergency language will be repealed by operation of law on the following day.