2011 Louisiana Laws
Revised Statutes
TITLE 3 — Agriculture and forestry
RS 3:1391 — Definitions

PART II. COMMERCIAL FEEDS

§1391. Definitions

For the purposes of this Part the following definitions shall apply:

(1) "Brand name" or "brand" means any word, name, symbol, or device, or any combination thereof, identifying the commercial feed of a registrant and distinguishing it from that of others.

(2) "Byproducts" means secondary products produced in addition to the principal product except ingredients which are a primary source of protein.

(3) "Commercial feed" means all materials including vitamin and mineral mixes, except whole seeds unmixed or physically altered entire unmixed seeds, which are distributed for use as pet food or as feed for livestock or for mixing in pet food or in feed for livestock and includes cottonseed meal and soybean meal.

(4) "Customer-formula feed" means commercial feed which consists of a mixture of commercial feeds or feed ingredients, each batch of which is manufactured according to the specific instructions of the final purchaser.

(5) "Distribute" means to sell, offer for sale, or expose for sale or trading.

(6) "Distributor" means a person who distributes.

(7) "Guaranteed feeding units" means the minimum crude protein, minimum crude fat, maximum crude fiber, and minimum or maximum minerals expressed as percentages and indicated on the label as being contained in the commercial feed.

(8) "Ingredient" or "ingredients" means any of the constituent materials making up a commercial feed.

(9) "Label" means a display of written, printed, or graphic matter upon or affixed to the container in which a commercial feed is distributed or on the invoice or delivery slip with which a commercial feed is distributed.

(10) "Labeling" means all labels and other written, printed, or graphic matter which is located upon a commercial feed or any of its containers or wrapper or accompanying such commercial feed.

(11) "Livestock" means cattle, buffalo, bison, oxen, and other bovine; horses, mules, donkeys, and other equine; sheep; goats; swine; domestic rabbits; fish, turtles, and other animals identified with aquaculture that are located in artificial reservoirs or enclosures that are both on privately owned property and constructed so as to prevent, at all times, the ingress and egress of fish life from public waters; imported exotic deer and antelope, elk, farm-raised white-tailed deer, farm-raised ratites, and other farm-raised exotic animals; chickens, turkeys, and other poultry; and animals placed under the jurisdiction of the commissioner of agriculture and forestry and any hybrid, mixture, or mutation of any such animal.

(12) "Manufacture" means to grind, mix, blend, or further process a commercial feed for distribution.

(13) "Manufacturer" means a person who manufactures a commercial feed or a customer-formula feed.

(14) "Medication" means any drug, antibiotic, or other substance intended for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease in animals other than man and any substance other than feed ingredients intended to affect the structure or any function of the animal body.

(15) "Official sample" means a sample of feed taken by the commissioner or his agent in accordance with provisions of R.S. 3:1398.

(16) "Package" means a parcel, bag, or other container.

(17) "Percent" or "percentages" mean percentages by weights.

(18) "Person" means any individual, partnership, corporation, and association, or other legal entity.

(19) "Pet" means any domesticated animal normally maintained in or near the household of the owner thereof.

(20) "Pet food" means any commercial feed prepared and distributed for consumption by pets.

(21) "Premises" means any place such as, but not exclusively, warehouses, factories, stores, trucks, railroad cars, boats, etc.

(22) "Protein derived from mammalian tissues" means any protein containing a portion of mammalian animals, excluding: blood and blood products, gelatin, inspected meat products which have been cooked and offered for human food and further heat-processed for feed such as plate waste and used cellulosic food casings; milk products including milk and milk proteins; and any product in which the only mammalian protein consists entirely of porcine or equine protein.

(23) "Registrant" means the person registering a feed with the commission.

(24) "Ruminant" includes any mammal of the suborder Ruminantia, which includes but is not limited to cattle, buffalo, sheep, goats, deer, elk, and antelopes.

(25) "Ton" means a net weight of two thousand pounds avoirdupois.

(26) "Value of the protein deficiency" means the value of the crude protein as set by the state chemist times the difference between the guaranteed protein analysis and the actual protein analysis of the feed sample.

Acts 2010, No. 579, §1.