SECTIONS 15041-15042 - California Statutes

FOOD AND AGRICULTURAL CODE

SECTION 15041-15042

15041. A commercial feed is adulterated in the following cases:
(a) It bears or contains any poisonous, deleterious, or
nonnutritive substance in amounts which are specified as being unsafe
by the director by regulations.
(b) If any valuable constituent has been in whole or in part
omitted or abstracted therefrom or any less valuable substance
substituted therefor.
(c) Its composition differs from, or quality falls below, that
which it is purported or is represented to possess by its labeling.
(d) It contains a drug or drugs or other additive and the methods
used in or the facilities or controls used for its manufacture,
processing, or packaging do not conform to current good manufacturing
practice regulations adopted by the director to assure that the drug
or drugs or other additive meets the requirement of this chapter as
to safety and has the identity and strength and meets the quality and
purity characteristics which it purports or is represented to
possess.

15042. The sale or distribution of any lot, parcel, or package of
commercial feed deemed by the director to bear or contain a
poisonous, deleterious, or nonnutritive substance in amounts which
are specified as being unsafe by the director by regulation is an
infraction punishable by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars
($500). A second or subsequent violation of this section is a
misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars
($100) and not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000).