ANIMAL FOOD AND FEEDING STUFFS [CAP. 183.

CHAPTER 183
ANIMAL FOOD AND FEEDING STUFFS ACT
To make provision with respect to the manufacture and sale of animal
feeding stuffs and other matters incidental thereto.

( )*
Enacted by ACT IV of 1965, as amended by Acts XIII of 1985 and VIII of
1990.

1. This Act may be cited as the Animal Food and Feeding Short title and
Stuffs Act, and shall come into force on such date as the Minister commencement.
responsible for agriculture may appoint by notice in the
Government Gazette.*
2. In this Act and in any regulations made thereunder, unless Interpretation.
the context otherwise requires -
"animal food", "animal foodstuffs" and "animal feeding stuff"
includes any compound feeding stuff, any balanced compound
feeding stuff and any articles intended for use as food for stock;
"balanced compound feeding stuff" means a compound feeding
stuff specified in the First Column of Part II of the First Schedule
to this Act;
"cattle" means bulls, cows, oxen, heifers, calves, sheep, goats
and swine;
"compound feeding stuff" means an animal feeding stuff
consisting in a mixture of ground, pulverised or kibbled materials,
other than a balanced compound feeding stuff;
"Director of Agriculture" includes any officer of the Department
of Agriculture to whom the Director of Agriculture may from time
to time assign in writing any powers or duties under this Act;
"Director of Trade" includes any officer of the Department of
Trade to whom the Director of Trade may from time to time assign
in writing any powers or duties under this Act;
"inspector" means a person appointed by the Prime Minister
under section 10 of this Act;
"Malta" has the same meaning as is assigned to it by section 124
of the Constitution of Malta;
"manufacture" includes mix or prepare;
"official analyst" means any person designated by the Prime
Minister, by notice published in the Government Gazette, to act as
analyst for the purpose of this Act;
"poultry" means fowls, turkeys, geese, ducks and guinea fowls;
"prescribed" means prescribed by regulations made under this

*Not yet in force.

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Act;
"protein" means the amount of nitrogen excluding ammoniacal
nitrogen or nitric nitrogen, if present, multiplied by 6.25;
"sale" includes any disposal under whatever title, whether
onerous or gratuitous, any transfer of goods from one’s possession
and any offering or exposing for sale or having in possession for
sale, and "sell" shall be construed accordingly;
"stock" means cattle, poultry, horses, asses, mules and rabbits.
Licence by the 3. (1) No person shall manufacture or sell animal feeding
Director of Trade. stuffs without a licence issued by the Director of Trade.
(2) The issue of a licence under subsection (1) of this section
shall not exempt the holder thereof from obtaining any other
licence or permit required by any other law.

Where licence is 4. A licence under this Act shall not be required for any of the
not required. following objects:
(a) the sale by growers of their own produce as food for
animals so long as such produce is not manufactured in
any way before sale;
(b) the manufacture of animal feeding stuffs for the
purposes of consumption by stock owned by the
person manufacturing such feeding stuff.

Provisions 5. (1) No person shall sell any animal feeding stuff other than
governing the sale in packaged form.
of animal feeding
stuffs. (2) No person shall sell any parcel of animal feeding stuff
included in the First Column of Part I of the First Schedule to this
Act unless such parcel is marked in the prescribed manner with a
mark or marks stating -
(a) the name under which such feeding stuff is sold; and
(b) such particulars (if any) of composition as are
mentioned in relation thereto in the Second Column of
the said Schedule; and
(c) where the animal feeding stuff contains any ingredient
included in the Second Schedule to this Act, the name
of such ingredient; and
(d) in the case of a mixture containing two or more
ingredients unground, the nature and proportions of
the ingredients.
(3) No person shall sell any animal feeding stuff mentioned in
subsection (2) of this section which, except for such limits of
variation as may be prescribed does not conform in its composition
to the particulars stated in accordance with the said subsection (2).
(4) No person shall sell any parcel of a balanced compound
feeding stuff unless it is marked in the prescribed manner with a
mark or marks stating -
(a) the type-name of such balanced compound feeding
stuff; and
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(b) the percentages of protein, of oil and of fibre in such

balanced compound feeding stuff.

6. The provision of subsection (1) of section 5 of this Act Sale of animal

shall not apply to the sale of quantities of twenty-five and one-half feeding stuff in
small quantities.
kilograms or less if an animal feeding stuff is taken in the presence
of the purchaser from a parcel containing a greater quantity than
twenty-five and one-half kilograms, but in any such case all the
other provisions of the said section 5 shall apply in regard to such
parcel and to the sales made therefrom.
7. (1) No person shall sell any balanced compound feeding Type-names and
stuff under any type-name other than one specified in the First limits of analysis
of balanced
Column of Part II of the First Schedule to this Act. compound feeding
stuff.
(2) No person shall sell any balanced compound feeding stuff
which is not, in relation to the type-name used, within the limits of
analysis specified for such type-name in the Second Column of Part
I of the First Schedule to this Act.

8. Where an animal feeding stuff or any material used in the Implied warranty.
manufacture of any compound feeding stuff or of any balanced
compound feeding stuff is sold under a name specified in the First
Column of the Third Schedule to this Act, there shall be implied,
notwithstanding any agreement or notice to the contrary, a warrant
by the seller that such feeding stuff or material accords with the
definition thereof contained in the Second Column of that Schedule
and it shall not be lawful for any person to sell any such feeding
stuff or material in breach of that warranty.
9. (1) No person shall manufacture or sell any animal feeding Sale of animal
stuff which contains any ingredient deleterious to stock. feeding stuff
containing
(2) Any substance mentioned in the Fourth Schedule to this deleterious
ingredients.
Act, if present in a feeding stuff, or where a maximum quantity
with regard to a substance is indicated in the said Schedule, if
present in excess of that quantity, shall be deemed to be a
deleterious ingredient unless the contrary is proved.

10. The Prime Minister may from time to time appoint one or Appointment,
more inspectors whose duty it shall be to see that the provisions of duties and powers
of inspectors.
this Act are complied with, and, without prejudice to the generality
of the foregoing, such inspectors may -
(a) at all reasonable times enter any place where any
animal feeding stuff is manufactured or sold;
(b) inspect any animal feeding stuff and any books or
documents found in any such place;
(c) take samples of any animal feeding stuff from any
such place; and
(d) seize any animal feeding stuff which, on the basis of
the certificate referred to in subsection (2) of section
13 of this Act, they will consider to be in
contravention of the provisions of section 9 of this
Act:
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Provided that any animal feeding stuff so seized shall be

restored to the person from whom it was seized, if no criminal
proceedings under the provisions of this Act have been taken in
respect of such animal feeding stuff within the period prescribed in
subsection (2) of section 17 of this Act or if the said animal feeding
stuff, saving always the application of subsection (3) of section 23
Cap. 9. of the Criminal Code, has not been forfeited as a result of such
proceedings.

Taking of samples. 11. (1) Samples shall be taken in the prescribed manner.
(2) An inspector who has taken a sample shall divide it into
three approximately equal and truly representative portions and
shall pack and seal each such portion in the prescribed manner. He
shall then send or deliver two of the portions to the official analyst
together with a signed statement that the sample was taken in the
prescribed manner and he shall deliver the third portion to the
person who would be liable to prosecution in the event of an
offence being disclosed by the result of analysis of the sample, or
to the representative of such person.
(3) The inspector shall not disclose to any person, other than
the Director of Agriculture, the name of the manufacturer or seller
of such feeding stuff.

Obstructing 12. No person shall obstruct or hinder an inspector in the

inspectors. discharge of his duties pursuant to this Act or to any regulations
made thereunder.
Method of analysis 13. (1) The analysis of the sample shall be carried out in the
and relative prescribed manner.
procedure.
(2) The official analyst shall analyse one of the portions sent or
delivered to him and shall issue a certificate of analysis to the
inspector who took the sample.
(3) The official analyst shall retain the other portion of the
sample, packed and sealed as sent or delivered to him by the
inspector in accordance with the provisions of subsection (2) of
section 11 of this Act, for a period of three months unless within
that period criminal proceedings have been instituted in regard to
an animal feeding stuff from which the sample was taken, in which
case the official analyst shall retain such other portion until the said
proceedings will have been definitely concluded.

Right of purchaser 14. A purchaser of any animal feeding stuff may within
to request taking of fourteen days from the date of delivery to him of such feeding stuff,
sample.
on payment of such fee as may from time to time be prescribed,
request an inspector to take a sample from such feeding stuff in the
prescribed manner.
Certificate may be 15. Where a sample has been taken and analysed in the
produced as prescribed manner such analysis shall be deemed to be an analysis
evidence.
of the whole quantity of animal feeding stuff from which the
sample was taken and the certificate of analysis mentioned in
subsection (2) of section 13 of this Act, subject to its being con-
firmed on oath by the official analyst, shall be accepted as evidence
in any criminal proceedings instituted under this Act.
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16. (1) Any person who contravenes any of the provisions of Penalties.
this Act or of any regulations made thereunder shall be guilty of an Amended by:
XIII. 1983.5;
offence and shall be liable - VIII. 1990.3.
(a) on a first conviction by the Court of Magistrates of an
offence against any of the provisions of section 5, 7, 8
or 9 of this Act, to a fine (multa) of not less than ten
liri and not exceeding fifty liri and, on a second or
subsequent conviction by the said court of any such
offence, to a fine (multa) of not less than fifty liri and
not exceeding one hundred liri;
(b) on a first conviction by the Court of Magistrates of an
offence against any of the other provisions of this Act
or of any regulations made thereunder, unless in any
such regulations a lesser penalty is established, to a
fine (multa) of not less than five liri and not exceeding
twenty liri and, on a second or subsequent conviction
of any such offence, to a fine (multa) of not less than
twenty liri and not exceeding fifty liri.
(2) Where any person is convicted of an offence under this Act
or under any regulations made thereunder, the Director of Trade
may in his discretion and in relation to such person withhold the
granting of, suspend, or cancel any licence required under section 3
of this Act for such time as he may deem proper.

17. (1) Where criminal proceedings against the seller, not Good faith of
being also the manufacturer, of an animal feeding stuff are seller.
instituted under this Act for an offence against any of the
provisions of subsection (3) of section 5, of subsection (2) of
section 7, of section 8, or of subsection (1) of section 9, such seller
shall not be liable to conviction -
(a) if he proves that, having exercised the due diligence
and having taken all reasonable precautions to make
sure that there was no infringement of any of the said
provisions, he was led into the mistaken belief that
there was not any such infringement; and
(b) if, on being so requested by an inspector, he has
furnished all the information available to him in regard
to the person from whom he purchased, acquired or
otherwise obtained the animal feeding stuff connected
with the offence and in regard to the condition and
description of such feeding stuff at the time when it
came into his possession.
(2) Criminal proceedings under this Act shall not be instituted
after the expiration of three months from the date on which a
sample has been taken in accordance with subsection (1) of section
11 of this Act.

18. The Minister responsible for agriculture may from time to Power to make
time make regulations - regulations.

(a) for varying any of the Schedules to this Act;

(b) for prescribing anything which under this Act is
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required or authorised to be prescribed; and

(c) generally for any other purpose connected with the
operation of the provisions of this Act.

Official secrecy. 19. (1) Every person having an official duty or being
employed in the administration of this Act or of any regulations
made thereunder shall regard and deal with any details or any
information resulting from the analysis of any animal feeding stuff
carried out in pursuance of this Act or of any regulations made
thereunder as secret and confidential, except in so far as may be
necessary for the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of
this Act or of any such regulations or for the purpose, or in the
course, of a prosecution for any offence committed in relation
thereto.
(2) Any person who contravenes the provision of subsection (1)
of this section shall be guilty of an offence to which the provisions
of paragraph (a) of subsection (1) of section 16 of this Act shall
apply, but any such person shall be also liable, at the discretion of
the court, to be sentenced to imprisonment for a period not
exceeding six months.
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SCHEDULES

FIRST SCHEDULE

[SECTION 2, 5(2), 7(1)]

PART I

Animal feeding stuff Particulars to be stated

Alfalfa (lucerne) meal Amounts of protein and fibre respectively
Bean meal None
Barley meal None
Clover meal Amounts of protein and fibre respectively
Coconut or copra cake or meal Amounts of oil and protein respectively
Compound cakes or meals, that is to say, Amounts, if any, of oil, protein and fibre
any cakes or meals (other than respectively
molasses feeds and dried molassed
beet pulp) consisting of a mixture of
one or more of the articles mentioned
in this Part of this Schedule with any
other such article or with any other
substance or substances
Cotton cakes or meals, not decorticated Amounts of oil and protein respectively
Cotton cakes or meals from decorticated Amounts of oil, protein and fibre
or partly decorticated cotton seed respectively
Dari or durra meal None
Dried brewery and distillery grains Amounts of oil and protein respectively
Dried grass
Dried grass (Maintenance quantity) } As defined in the Third Schedule -
Dried green fodder crops Amount of protein.
Dried plain beet pulp Amount of fibre
Dried molassed beet pulp Amounts of sugar and fibre respectively
Dried yeast Amount of protein
Feeding dried blood Amount of protein
Feeding bone flour Amounts of phosphoric acid and protein
respectively
Feeding bone meal; ground bone, or any Amounts of phosphoric acid and protein
other bone product for feeding respectively
purposes
Feeding meat and bone meal, or any Amounts of oil, protein and phosphoric
other product of meat (including acid respectively
whale meat) and bone for feeding
purposes
Feeding meat meal, or any other product Amounts of oil, protein and phosphoric
of meat (including whale meat) for acid respectively
feeding purposes
Fish meal, white fish meal, or other or Amounts of oil, protein, phosphoric acid
product obtained by drying and and salt respectively
grinding otherwise treating fish or
fish waste
Ground oats None
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Animal feeding stuff Particulars to be stated

Linseed cakes and the meals of such Amounts of oil and protein respectively
cakes; extracted linseed meal
Linseed meal Amount of oil
Locust bean meal None
Maize by-products not otherwise Amounts of oil, protein and fibre
specifically mentioned in this respectively
Schedule
Maize, flaked Amounts of oil, protein and fibre
respectively
Maize germ cake or meal Amounts of oil, protein and fibre
respectively
Maize gluten feed Amounts of oil, protein and fibre
respectively
Maize meal None
Malt culms Amounts of protein and fibre respectively
Molasses feeds (other than dried Amounts of sugar and fibre respectively
molassed beet pulp) including any
feeding stuffs, composed of treacle or
molasses with an absorbent,
containing not less than 10 per cent of
sugar
Oatmeal by-products Amount of fibre
Oil cakes or meals not otherwise Amounts of oil and protein respectively
specifically mentioned in this
Schedule which are the product of any
one undecorticated substance or seed
from which oil has been removed
Oil cakes or meals not otherwise Amounts of oil, protein and fibre
specifically mentioned in this respectively
Schedule which are the product of any
one decorticated or partly
decorticated substance or seed from
which oil has been removed
Palm kernel cake or meal Amounts of oil and protein respectively
Pea meal or chick-pea meal None
Rape cake or meal Amounts of oil and protein respectively
Rice bran or rice meal, or the by- Amounts of oil, protein and fibre
products produced in milling shelled respectively
rice
Soya cake or meal Amounts of oil and protein respectively
Treacle or molasses Amount of sugar
Wheat meal None
Wheat offals or millers’ offals including Amount of fibre
pollard
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PART II

Balanced Compound feeding stuff type-name Amounts of oil, protein and fibre
respectively within the undernoted
limits.
Oil % Protein % Fibre %

Cattle:
Dairy Cattle Production Ration "A" (Ordinary) ........... 2½ to 6 16 to 21 up to 12
Dairy Cattle Production Ration "B" (High yield) ......... 2½ to 6 18 to 23 up to 10
Calf Starter Ration ...................................................... up to 4 22 to 26 up to 5½
Calf Rearing Ration .................................................... 2½ to 6 19 to 24 up to 8½
Cattle Fattening Ration ............................................... 2½ to 7 18 to 23 up to 12

Goats and Sheep:

Goat and Sheep Production Ration .............................. 2½ to 6 16 to 21 up to 12

Pigs:
Sow and Weaner Ration .............................................. up to 4½ 16 to 20 up to 6½
Pig Creep-Feed Ration ................................................ up to 4 19 to 24 up to 5½
Pig Fattening Ration .................................................. up to 3½ 12 to 16 up to 6½

Poultry:
Layers Ration ............................................................. 2 or over 16 to 22 up to 6
Chick Rearing Ration .................................................. 2 or over 19 to 23 up to 5
Poultry Growers Ration .............................................. 2 or over 17 to 21 up to 6
Broiler Ration ............................................................. 3½ or over 20 to 25 up to 5
Turkey Starter Ration ................................................. 3½ or over 22 to 26 up to 5½
Turkey Growers Ration ............................................... 3½ or over 16 to 20 up to 7
Turkey Finishing Ration ............................................. 3½ or over 13 to 16 up to 7

SECOND SCHEDULE

(SECTION 5(2))

Ingredients in Feeding Stuffs the presence of which must be declared

(a) Husks, chaff, glumes, hulls, nutshells or skins of nuts, shudes, from any
source, when used as separate ingredients or artificial mixtures in the
manufacture of feeding stuffs.
Where the kernels naturally associated in seeds with one or other of the
above materials are present in a feeding stuff along with the materials with
which they are so associated, regard shall be had to the proportion of the
above materials that might reasonably be expected to accompany such
kernels when the seed from which they are derived is in its natural
condition, provided that feeding in this condition is regarded as a common
practice in the feeding of live-stock.
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(b) Wheat straw or barley straw, ground or otherwise.

(c) Peat or peat moss, treated or untreated.
(d) Sawdust or any other form of wood, treated or untreated.

THIRD SCHEDULE

(SECTION 8)

Warranty implied in the sale of articles under certain names

Name under which article sold Implied definition

Alfalfa (lucerne) meal Alfalfa (lucerne), as grown, dried and
ground, to which no other matter has
been added.
Barley meal The meal obtained by grinding barley,
as grown, which shall be the whole
grain together with only such other
substances as may reasonably be
expected to have become associated
with the grain in the field
Bean meal The meal obtained by grinding
commercially pure beans of the
species (1) Vicia Faba (synonym
Faba vulgaris) or any of its
varieties, commonly known as
"horse bean" "field bean" or "broad
bean"; or (2) Phaseolus vulgaris, the
"true haricot bean" or any of its
varieties, white or coloured
Clover meal Whole clover, as grown, dried and
ground, to which no other matter has
been added
Compound cakes or meals Cakes or meals (other than molasses
feeds and dried molassed beet pulp)
consisting of a mixture of one or
more of the articles mentioned in
Part I of the First Schedule with any
other substance or substances
Cotton cakes or meals not decorticated The residue resulting from the removal
of oil from commercially pure
cotton seed, not decorticated
Cotton cakes or meals from decorticated or The residue resulting from the removal
partly decorticated cotton seed of oil from commercially pure
cotton seed from which the cortex,
in whole or in part, has been
removed
Dari meal; durra meal The meal obtained by grinding
commercially pure dari or durra
seed
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Name under which article sold
Dried brewery grains
Dried distillery grains
Dried grass
‘ (b) is otherwise as grown (that is to
Dried grass (maintenance quality)
Dried green fodder crops
Dried plain beet pulp
Dried molassed beet pulp
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Implied definition
The article produced by drying the
residue of malted and unmalted
cereals used in brewing, to which no
other matter has been added
The article produced by drying the
residues from distillery mash-tuns,
to which no other matter has been
added
Any product which
(a) is obtained by artificially drying
any of the following: grass, clover,
lucerne, sainfoin, green cereals, or
any mixture consisting of any of
them, and
say including any growths
harvested therewith but with no
other substance added thereto), and
contains not less than 13 per cent
protein calculated on the
assumption that it contains 10 per
cent moisture
Dried grass as defined in this Schedule
except that it may contain less than
13 per cent but not less than 10 per
cent protein calculated on the
assumption that it contains 10 per
cent moisture
Any product which
(a) is obtained by artificially drying
any green crop or crops suitable for
use as dried fodder for cattle or
poultry, and
(b) is otherwise as grown (that is to
say, including any growth
harvested therewith but with no
other substance added thereto), and
contains not less than 10 per cent
protein calculated on the
assumption that it contains 10 per
cent moisture,
but is not dried grass or dried grass
(maintenance quality)
The article produced by drying the
sugar beet residue produced in the
manufacture of sugar from sugar
beet with or without the addition of
molasses, to give less than 10 per
cent of sugar.
The article produced by drying the
sugar beet residue produced in the
manufacture of sugar from sugar
beet, with the addition of molasses,
to give 10 per cent or more of sugar
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Name under which article sold Implied definition

Dried yeast An article produced by drying yeast or
yeast residues, to which no other
matter has been added
Extracted linseed meal The residue resulting from the removal
of oil from commercially pure
linseed by means of a solvent
Feeding bone flour The product obtained by grinding
commercially pure steamed bone
Feeding bone meal; ground bone Commercially pure bone, raw or
degreased, which has been ground
or crushed
Feeding dried blood Blood which has been dried, to which
no other matter has been added
Feeding meat and bone meal The product, containing not less than 40
per cent of protein and not more
than 4 per cent of salt, obtained by
drying and grinding animal
carcasses or portions thereof
(excluding hoof and horn) to which
no other matter has been added but
which may have been preliminarily
treated for the removal of fat
Feeding meat meal The product, containing not less than 55
per cent of protein and not more
than 4 per cent of salt, obtained by
drying and grinding animal
carcasses or portions thereof
(excluding hoof and horn) to which
no other matter has been added but
which may have been preliminarily
treated for the removal of fat
Fish meal; fish residue meal A product obtained by drying and
grinding or otherwise treating fish
or waste of fish, to which no other
matter has been added
Flaked maize The product obtained by cooking and
flaking commercially pure maize or
Indian corn, either as grown or from
which the germ, in whole or in part,
has been removed
Ground oats The meal obtained by grinding
commercially pure oats, as grown
Linseed cakes or the meals of such cakes The residue resulting from the removal
of oil from commercially pure
linseed
Linseed meal The meal obtained by grinding or
crushing commercially pure linseed
Locust bean meal The meal obtained by grinding or
crushing commercially pure locust
beans
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Name under which article sold Implied definition

Maize germ cake or meal A meal or cake resulting from the
grinding of maize germs or from
maize germs from which the oil has
been removed in whole or in part
Maize gluten feed A by-product resulting from the
removal of starch and germ from
maize, to which no other matter has
been added
Maize meal; Indian meal The meal obtained by grinding
commercially pure maize or Indian
corn, as grown
Malt culms The rootlets and shoots arising from the
screening of malt, to which no other
matter has been added
Molasses feeds Any mixture (other than dried molassed
beet pulp) containing not less than
10 per cent of sugar, of an absorbent
material and treacle or molasses
Nut cakes or meals, including coconut, copra, The residue resulting from the removal
palm kernel and ground nut cakes and meals of oil from commercially pure nut
kernels
Oatfeed The by-product of oatmeal milling
consisting of hulls, floury materials,
mealy matter, scree dust, all finely
ground, and containing not more
than 27 per cent of fibre
Pea meal The meal obtained by grinding
commercially pure peas, as grown,
of varieties of "Pisum sativum" or
"Pisum arvense"
Rape cake or meal The residue resulting from the removal
of oil from commercially pure rape
seed
Rice bran; rice meal The by-product produced in milling
shelled rice, to which no other
matter has been added
Soya cake or meal The residue resulting from the removal
of oil from commercially pure soya
beans
Sugar beet treacle; sugar beet molasses A concentrated syrup product obtained
in the manufacture of sugar from
sugar beet, to which no other matter
has been added
Sugar cane treacle; sugar cane molasses A concentrated syrup product obtained
in the manufacture of sugar from
sugar cane, to which no other matter
has been added
Wheat meal The meal obtained by grinding
commercially pure wheat, as grown
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Name under which article sold Implied definition

Wheat offals; miller’s offals (including pollard)
White fish meal
A product of wheat separated in the
process of milling and containing
not more than 4 per cent of
vegetable substances, other than
wheat, extracted from wheat in the
process of cleaning by the maker of
the offals in the production of flour
A product (containing not more than 6
per cent of oil and not more than 4
per cent of salt) obtained by drying
and grinding or otherwise treating
white fish or waste of white fish, to
which no other matter has been
added

In the case of every article mentioned in this Schedule the definition of which includes the
expression "commercially pure", it is implied that no other matter may be added.

FOURTH SCHEDULE

(SECTION 9(2))

Deleterious Ingredients in Feeding Stuffs

(a) Salts soluble in water, if present in a feeding stuff in proportion likely to be
injurious to the health of animals.
(b) All poisonous substances except those naturally present in the materials from
which the feeding stuff is derived.
(c) Sand, silicious matter or other insoluble mineral matter not naturally
associated with ingredients of the feeding stuff which do not fall within the
scope of this Schedule, or which, even if naturally so associated, are present
in greater proportion than the maximum that may be expected to be due to
such natural association - namely 3%.
For the purpose of this paragraph the term "insoluble" shall imply insolubility in
hydrochloric acid, as determined by a prescribed method; the term "natural
association" shall be construed as applying to average commercial samples of the
feeding material with which it may be claimed that a particular mineral ingredient is
associated.