Tennessee Administrative Code

Current Good Manufacturing Practice, Hazard Analysis, and Risk-Based Preventive Controls for Human Food. The department adopts by reference, as if fully stated herein, the federal standards for good manufacturing, hazard analysis, and risk-based preventive controls, compiled at 2…

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The department adopts by reference, as if fully stated herein, the substantive provisions of the Standards for the Growing, Harvesting, Packing, and Holding of Produce for Human Consumption, compiled at 21 C.F.R. part 112, as may be amended from time to time.

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(1) The names and definitions for commercial feeds shall be the Official Definition of Feed Ingredients adopted by the Association of American Feed Control Officials, except as the Commissioner designates otherwise in specific cases. (2) The terms used in reference to commercial …

this regulation on the principal display panel of the product and in following general format: (a) Net Weight. (b) Product name and brand name if any. (c) If drugs are used: 1. The word “medicated” shall appear directly following and below the product name in type size no smaller…

(1) The brand or product name must be appropriate for the intended use of the feed and not be misleading. If the name indicates the feed is made for a specific use, the character must conform therewith. A mixture labeled “Dairy Feed”, for example, must be suitable for that purpos…

(1) The guarantees for crude protein, equivalent protein from non-protein nitrogen, crude fat, crude fiber, and mineral guarantees (when required) will be in terms of percentage of weight. (2) Commercial feeds containing 6 1/2% or more mineral elements shall include in the guaran…

(1) The name of each ingredient or collective term for the grouping of ingredients, when required to be listed, shall be the name as defined in the Official Definitions of Feed Ingredients as published in the Official Publication of American Feed Control Officials, the common or …

and precautionary statements on the labeling of all commercial feeds and customer formula feeds containing additives (including drugs, special purpose additives, or non-nutritive additives) shall be adequate: (a) To enable safe and effective use for the intended purposes by users…

(1) Urea and other non-protein nitrogen products defined in the Official Publication of the Association of American Feed Control Officials are acceptable ingredients only in commercial feeds for ruminant animals as a source of equivalent crude protein and are not to be used in co…

(1) Prior to approval of a registration application and/or approval of a label for commercial feed which contains additives (including drugs, other special purpose additives, or nonnutritive additives) the distributor may be required to submit evidence to prove the safety and eff…

(1) For the purpose of Section 7 (a)(1) of the Act, the terms “poisonous or deleterious substances include but are not limited to the following: (a) Fluorine and any mineral or mineral mixture which is to be used directly for the feeding of domestic animals and in which the fluor…

require. (1) (a) A standard in effect is: The following materials are prohibited in all feeds: Coconut shells, sawdust, damaged or salvaged feed, moldy material, metal particles, screenings containing whole viable weed seeds beyond limitation, sand, gravel or crotalarias spectabi…

(1) For the purpose of enforcement of Section 7 (d) of the Act the Commissioner adopts the following as current good manufacturing practices: (a) The regulations prescribing good manufacturing practices for medicated feeds as published in the Code of Federal Regulations, Title 21…

(1) PRINCIPAL DISPLAY PANEL means the part of a label that is most likely to be displayed, presented, shown or examined under normal and customary conditions of display for retail sale. (2) INGREDIENT STATEMENT means a collective and contiguous listing on the label of the ingredi…

(1) The statement of net content and product name must be shown on the principal display panel. All other required information may be placed elsewhere on the label but shall be sufficiently conspicuous as to render it easily read by the average purchaser under ordinary .condition…

(1) No flavor designation shall be used on a pet food label unless the designated flavor is detectable by a recognized test method, or is one the presence of which provides a characteristic distinguishable by the pet. Any flavor designation on a pet food label must either conform…

(1) The sliding scale method of expressing a guaranteed analysis (for example, “Protein 15.18%) is prohibited. (2) Pursuant to Section 0080-05-06-.16(l) of the Act, pet foods containing 5% or more mineral ingredients, shall include in the guaranteed analysis the minimum and maxim…

(1) “The maximum moisture in all pet foods shall be guaranteed and shall not exceed 78.00% or the natural moisture content of the constituent ingredients of the product, whichever is greater. Pet foods such as those consisting principally of stew, gravy, sauce, broth, or juice wh…

intermittent or supplemental feeding or for some other limited purpose should: (1) (a) Bear a clear and conspicuous disclosure to that effect; or (b) Contain specific feeding directions which clearly state that the product should be used only in conjunction with other foods.

(1) An artificial color may be used in a pet food only if it has been shown to be harmless to pets. The permanent or provisional listing of an artificial color in the United States Food and Drug Regulations as safe for use, together with the conditions, limitations, and tolerance…

(1) Annual statement. Every person required to have a commercial feed license shall file with the department on or before July 1 an annual statement indicating the number of net tons of commercial feed the person distributed in the state during the previous calendar year (January…