[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 21, Volume 6]
[Revised as of January 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 21CFR501.110]

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                        TITLE 21--FOOD AND DRUGS
 
CHAPTER I--FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN 
                          SERVICES (CONTINUED)
 
PART 501--ANIMAL FOOD LABELING--Table of Contents
 
      Subpart F--Exemptions From Animal Food Labeling Requirements
 
Sec.  501.110  Animal feed labeling; collective names for feed ingredients.

    (a) An animal feed shall be exempt from the requirements of section 
403(i)(2) of the act with respect to its label bearing the common or 
usual names of the animal feed ingredients listed in paragraph (b) of 
this section under the following prescribed conditions:
    (1) The animal feed is intended solely for livestock and poultry.
    (2) The label of the animal feed bears the collective name(s) 
prescribed in paragraph (b) of this section in lieu of the corresponding 
common or usual names of the individual feed ingredients contained 
therein.
    (3) The label of the animal feed otherwise conforms to the 
requirements of section 403(i)(2) of the act.
    (4) The ingredients of any feed listed in paragraph (b) of this 
section neither contain nor are food additives as defined in section 
201(s) of the act unless provided for by and in conformity with 
applicable regulations established pursuant to section 409 of the act.
    (b) Each collective name referred to in this paragraph may be used 
for the purpose of labeling where one or more of the ingredients listed 
for that collective name are present. The animal feed ingredients listed 
under each of the collective names are the products defined by the 
Association of American Feed Control Officials. The collective names are 
as follows:
    (1) Animal protein products include one or more of the following: 
Animal products, marine products, and milk products.
    (2) Forage products include one or more of the following: Alfalfa 
meals, entire plant meals, hays, and stem meals.
    (3) Grain products include one or more of the following: Barley, 
grain sorghums, maize (corn), oats, rice, rye, and wheat.
    (4) Plant protein products include one or more of the following: 
Algae meals, coconut meals (copra), cottonseed meals, guar meal, linseed 
meals, peanut meals, safflower meals, soybean meals, sunflower meals, 
and yeasts.
    (5) Processed grain byproducts include one or more of the following: 
Brans, brewers dried grains, distillers grains,

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distillers solubles, flours, germ meals, gluten feeds, gluten meals, 
grits, groats, hominy feeds, malt sprouts, middlings, pearled, 
polishings, shorts, and wheat mill run.
    (6) Roughage products include one or more of the following: Cobs, 
hulls, husks, pulps, and straws.