[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 7, Volume 5, Parts 200 to 399]
[Revised as of January 1, 2001]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 7CFR361.3]

[Page 454-455]
 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
 CHAPTER III--ANIMAL AND PLANT HEALTH INSPECTION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF 
                               AGRICULTURE
 
PART 361--IMPORTATION OF SEED AND SCREENINGS UNDER THE FEDERAL SEED ACT--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 361.3  Declarations and labeling.

    (a) All lots of agricultural seed, vegetable seed, and screenings 
imported into the United States must be accompanied by a declaration 
from the importer of the seed or screenings. The declaration must state 
the kind, variety, and origin of each lot of seed or screenings and the 
use for which the seed or screenings are being imported.
    (b) Each container of agricultural seed and vegetable seed imported 
into the United States for seeding (planting) purposes must be labeled 
to indicate the identification code or designation for the lot of seed; 
the name of each kind or kind and variety of agricultural seed or the 
name of each kind and variety of vegetable seed present in the lot in 
excess of 5 percent of the whole; and the designation ``hybrid'' when 
the lot contains hybrid seed. Kind and variety names used on the label 
shall conform to the kind and variety names used in the definitions of

[[Page 455]]

``agricultural seed'' and ``vegetable seed'' in Sec. 361.1. If any seed 
in the lot has been treated, each container must be further labeled, in 
type no smaller than 8 point, as follows:
    (1) The label must indicate that the seed has been treated and 
provide the name of the substance or process used to treat the seed. 
Substance names used on the label shall be the commonly accepted coined, 
chemical (generic), or abbreviated chemical name.
    (i) Commonly accepted coined names are commonly recognized as names 
of particular substances, e.g., thiram, captan, lindane, and dichlone.
    (ii) Examples of commonly accepted chemical (generic) names are 
blue-stone, calcium carbonate, cuprous oxide, zinc hydroxide, 
hexachlorobenzene, and ethyl mercury acetate. The terms ``mercury'' or 
``mercurial'' may be used in labeling all types of mercurials.
    (iii) Examples of commonly accepted abbreviated chemical names are 
BHC (1,2,3,4,5,6-Hexachlorocyclohexane) and DDT (dichloro diphenyl 
trichloroethane).
    (2) If the seed has been treated with a mercurial or similarly toxic 
substance harmful to humans and vertebrate animals, the label must 
include a representation of a skull and crossbones and a statement 
indicating that the seed has been treated with poison. The skull and 
crossbones must be at least twice the size of the type used for the 
information provided on the label, and the poison warning statement must 
be written in red letters on a background of distinctly contrasting 
color. Mercurials and similarly toxic substances include the following:

Aldrin, technical
Demeton
Dieldrin
p-Dimethylaminobenzenediazo sodium sulfonate
Endrin
Ethion
Heptachlor
Mercurials, all types
Parathion
Phorate
Toxaphene
O-O-Diethyl-O-(isopropyl-4-methyl-6-pyrimidyl) thiophosphate
O,O-Diethyl-S-2-(ethylthio) ethyl phosphorodithioate

    (3) If the seed has been treated with a substance other than one 
classified as a mercurial or similarly toxic substance under paragraph 
(b)(2) of this section, and the amount remaining with the seed is 
harmful to humans or other vertebrate animals, the label must indicate 
that the seed is not to be used for food, feed, or oil purposes. Any 
amount of any substance used to treat the seed that remains with the 
seed will be considered harmful when the seed is in containers of more 
than 4 ounces, except that the following substances will not be deemed 
harmful when present at a rate less than the number of parts per million 
(p/m) indicated:

Allethrin--2 p/m
Malathion--8 p/m
Methoxyclor--2 p/m
Piperonyl butoxide--20 p/m (8 p/m on oat and sorghum)
Pyrethrins--3 p/m (1 p/m on oat and sorghum)

    (c) In the case of seed in bulk, the information required under 
paragraph (b) of this section shall appear in the invoice or other 
records accompanying and pertaining to such seed. If the seed is in 
containers and in quantities of 20,000 pounds or more, regardless of the 
number of lots included, the information required on each container 
under paragraph (b) of this section need not be shown on each container 
if each container has stenciled upon it or bears a label containing a 
lot designation and the invoice or other records accompanying and 
pertaining to such seed bear the various statements required for the 
respective seeds.
    (d) Each container of agricultural seed and vegetable seed imported 
into the United States for cleaning need not be labeled to show the 
information required under paragraph (b) of this section if:
    (1) The seed is in bulk;
    (2) The seed is in containers and in quantities of 20,000 pounds or 
more, regardless of the number of lots involved, and the invoice or 
other records accompanying and pertaining to the seed show that the seed 
is for cleaning; or
    (3) The seed is in containers and in quantities of less than 20,000 
pounds, and each container carries a label that bears the words ``Seed 
for cleaning.''

[[Page 456]]