Section 76-19A-8 - AdulterationA commercial feed is adulterated if:
A. it bears or contains any poisonous or deleterious substance that may render it injurious to health; provided, however, that if the poisonous or deleterious substance is not an added substance, the commercial feed shall not be considered adulterated pursuant to this subsection if the quantity of the poisonous or deleterious substance in the commercial feed does not ordinarily render it injurious to health;B. it bears or contains any added poisonous, deleterious or nonnutritive substance that is unsafe as prescribed by the board;C. it is or it bears or contains any food additive that is unsafe as prescribed by board rule;D. it is a raw agricultural commodity and it bears or contains a pesticide chemical that is unsafe as provided in board rule; 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 by the board and such raw agricultural commodity has been subjected to processing such as canning, cooking, freezing, dehydrating or milling, the residue of the pesticide chemical remaining in or on such processed commercial feed shall not be deemed unsafe if the residue in or on the raw agricultural commodity has been removed to the extent possible in good manufacturing practice and the concentration of the 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 that is unsafe as prescribed by the board;E. it is or it bears or contains any color additive that is unsafe as prescribed by the board;F. it is or it bears or contains any new animal drug that is unsafe as prescribed by the board;G. it consists, in whole or in part, of any filthy, putrid or decomposed substance or it is otherwise unfit for animal feed;H. it has been prepared, packed or held under unsanitary conditions under which it may have become contaminated with filth or been rendered injurious to animal health;I. it is, in whole or in part, the product of a diseased animal or of an animal that has died otherwise than by slaughter that is unsafe as prescribed by the board;J. its container is composed, in whole or in part, of any poisonous or deleterious substance that may render the contents injurious to animal health;K. it has been intentionally subjected to radiation except as prescribed by the board;L. any valuable constituent has been, in whole or in part, omitted or abstracted from the commercial feed or any less valuable substance substituted for the valuable constituent;M. its composition or quality falls below or differs from that it is purported or is represented to possess by its labeling;N. it contains a drug and the methods used in or the facilities or controls used for the drug's manufacture, processing or packaging do not conform to current good manufacturing practice rules promulgated by the board to assure that the drug meets the requirement of the New Mexico Commercial Feed Act as to safety and has the identity and strength and meets the quality and purity characteristics that it purports or is represented to possess; orO. it contains viable weed seeds in amounts that exceed the limits established by the board.Added by 2013, c. 23,s. 8, eff. 7/1/2013.