[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 40, Volume 23]
[Revised as of July 1, 2008]
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 
 
                      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

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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]