PROGRAM - COMMERCIAL FEED AND FERTILIZER 



GOAL ; 



The connnercial feed and fertilizer program provides controls to 

 assure the consumers of these products that the products offered 

 for sale in this state are of the quality stated on the labels. 



OBJECTIVE : 



Administratively to obtain enactment of adequate laws to provide 

 essential controls and to enforce those laws that are in effect 

 to the maximum benefit of agriculture. 



Provide an inspectional service that can adequately council the 



feed and fertilizer industry in the field, can detect potential problems 



so they can be corrected before difficulties occur and can take 



meaningful samples of products during the manufacturing process or 



as they are being offered for sale so the degree of compliance with 



label claims can be determined. 



Maintain and operate a competent chemical and analytical laboratory 

 capable of providing all essential chemical analyses needed to 

 operate a feed and fertilizer control program. 



ACHIEVEMENTS: 



A new feed law was enacted that will improve the capabilities of 



the department in feed control by providing additional funds, broader 



inspectional power and other updated nationally uniform provisions. 



The laboratory has added the capabilities of analyzing for the drug 

 M.G.A. in feeds, detecting quantitatively very low levels of the toxic 

 elements lead and mercury, and has the capacity to run large numbers 

 of protein and nitrogen analyses economically as these two procedures 

 have been partially automated using the auto-analyzer. 



Registration, licensing and collection of fees have progressed at a 

 normal rate. Sampling and inspections have run at about the normal 

 level with inspections indicating a general improvement in most 

 operations. Laboratory analyses indicate very few fertilizer products 

 falling below claim. Feed manufacturers continue to have some 

 difficulty maintaining vitamin A guarantees. 



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