2016 Arkansas Code
Title 2 - Agriculture
Subtitle 3 - Livestock
Chapter 37 - Arkansas Feed Law of 1997
§ 2-37-110. Regulations

(a) The State Plant Board is authorized to promulgate such reasonable regulations as may be necessary for the efficient enforcement of this chapter. In the interest of uniformity the board shall by regulation adopt, unless the board determines that they are inconsistent with the provisions of this chapter or are not appropriate to conditions which exist in this state, the following:

(1) The Official Definitions of Feed Ingredients and Official Feed Terms adopted by the Association of American Feed Control Officials and published in the Official Publication Association of American Feed Control Officials; and

(2) Any regulation promulgated pursuant to the authority of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, provided, that the board would have the authority under this chapter to promulgate such regulations.

(b) Before the issuance, amendment, or repeal of any regulation authorized by this chapter, the board shall publish the proposed regulation, amendment, or notice to repeal an existing regulation in a manner reasonably calculated to give interested parties, including all current registrants, adequate notice and shall afford all interested persons an opportunity to present their views thereon, orally or in writing, within a reasonable period of time. After consideration of all views presented by interested persons, the board shall take appropriate action to issue the proposed regulation or to amend or repeal an existing regulation. The provisions of this subsection not withstanding, if the board, pursuant to the authority of this subsection, adopts the Official Definitions of Feed Ingredients or Official Feed Terms as adopted by the Association of American Feed Control Officials, or regulations promulgated pursuant to the authority of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, any amendment or modification adopted by said Association or by the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services in the case of regulations promulgated pursuant to the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, shall be adopted automatically under this chapter without regard to the publication of the notice required by this subsection (b), unless the board by order specifically determines that said amendment of modification shall not be adopted.