[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 40, Volume 23]

[Revised as of July 1, 2006]

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 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]