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KRS 250.501: Definitions for KRS 250.491 to 250.631.

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  1. KRS Chapter 250

As used in KRS 250.491 to 250.631:

(1) "Person" includes individual, partnership, corporation, and association;

(2) "Distribute" means to offer for sale, sell, exchange, or barter commercial feed;

(3) "Distributor" means any person who distributes;

(4) "Commercial feed" means all materials except unmixed seed, whole and

unprocessed, when not adulterated within the meaning of KRS 250.541(1) which

are offered for sale as feed or for mixing in feed. The director by administrative

regulation may exempt from this definition, or from specific prov ision of KRS

250.491 to 250.631, commodities such as hay, straw, stover, silage, cobs, husks,

hulls, and individual chemical compounds or substances when the commodities,

compounds, or substances are not intermixed or mixed with other materials, and are

not adulterated within the meaning of KRS 250.541(1);

(5) "Feed ingredient" means each of the constituent materials making up a commercial

feed;

(6) "Mineral feed" means a commercial feed intended to supply primarily mineral

elements or inorganic nutrients;

(7) "Drug" means any article intended for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation,

treatment, or prevention of disease in animals other than man and articles other than

feed intended to affect the structure or any function of the animal body;

(8) "Customer-formula feed" means commercial feed which consists of:

(a) A mixture of two (2) or more commercial feeds;

(b) A mixture of one (1) or more commercial feeds and one (1) or more feed

ingredients; or

(c) A mixture of two (2) or more feed ingredients;

each batch of which is manufactured according to the specific instructions of the

final purchaser;

(9) "Manufacture" means to grind, mix or blend, or further process a commercial feed

for distribution;

(10) "Brand name" means any word, name, symbol, or device, or any combination

thereof, identifying the commercial feed of a distributor or registrant and

distinguishing it from that of others;

(11) "Product name" means the name of the commercial feed which iden tifies it as to

kind, class, or specific use;

(12) "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;

(13) "Labeling" means written, printed, or graphic matter used in promoting the sale of

feed;

(14) "Ton" means a net weight of two thousand (2,000) pounds avoirdupois or nine

hundred eight (908) kilograms;

(15) "Percent" or "percentages" means percentages by weights;

(16) "Official sample" means a sample of feed taken by the director or his agent in

accordance with the provisions of subsections (3), (5), or (6) of KRS 250.581;

(17) "Pet food" means any commercial feed prepared and distributed for consumption by

pets;

(18) "Offered for sale" means to hold for sale, sell, exchange, or barter commercial feed;

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

of the owner;

(20) "Specialty pet" means any domestica ted animal pet normally maintained in a cage

or tank, such as, but not limited to, gerbils, hamsters, canaries, psittacine birds,

mynahs, finches, tropical fish, goldfish, snakes, and turtles;

(21) "Specialty pet food" means any commercial feed prepared an d distributed for

consumption by specialty pets;

(22) "Quantity statement" means the net weight (mass), net volume (liquid or dry), or

count;

(23) "Formula feed" means two (2) or more ingredients proportioned, mixed, and

processed according to specifications; and

(24) "Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act" means 21 U.S.C. secs. 301 et seq.

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