[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 40, Volume 21]
[Revised as of July 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 40CFR180.123a]

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                   TITLE 40--PROTECTION OF ENVIRONMENT
 
         CHAPTER I--ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (CONTINUED)
 
PART 180--TOLERANCES AND EXEMPTIONS FROM TOLERANCES FOR PESTICIDE CHEMICALS 
IN FOOD--Table of Contents
 
                     Subpart C--Specific Tolerances
 
Sec. 180.123a  Inorganic bromide residues in peanut hay and peanut hulls; 
statement of policy.

    (a) Investigations by the Food and Drug Administration show that 
peanut hay and peanut shells have been used as feed for meat and dairy 
animals. While many growers now harvest peanuts with combines and leave 
the hay on the ground to be incorporated into

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the soil, some growers follow the practice of curing peanuts on the 
vines in a stack and save the hay for animal feed. Peanut shells or 
hulls have been used to a minor extent as roughage for cattle feed. It 
has been established that the feeding to cattle of peanut hay and peanut 
hulls containing residues of inorganic bromides will contribute 
considerable residues of inorganic bromides to the meat and milk.
    (b) There are no tolerances for inorganic bromides in meat and milk 
to cover residues from use of such peanut hulls as animal feed. Peanut 
hulls containing residues of inorganic bromides from the use of methyl 
bromide are unsuitable as an ingredient in the feed of meat and dairy 
animals and should not be represented, sold, or used for that purpose.

[58 FR 65555, Dec. 15, 1993]