Title 11 Agriculture, Livestock and Other Animals

11-13-102. Definitions; exemptions.

(a) As used in this act: (i) "Association of America Feed Control Officials (AAFCO)" means officials of any state, dominion, federal or other governmental agency in North America, and employees thereof charged with the responsibility of enforcing laws regulating the production, labeling, distribution or sale of animal feeds; (ii) "Association of Official Analytical Chemists (AOAC)" means government and industry officials charged with developing analytical methods and the collaborative testing of those methods, validating data and accepting or rejecting those methods for use; (iii) "Brand name" means any word, name, symbol, device or any combination thereof identifying the commercial feed of a distributor or registrant and distinguishing it from that of others; (iv) "Commercial feed" means all liquid or solid materials or combination of materials, including custom formula feed, medicated feed and mineral feed, which are distributed or intended for distribution for use as feed or for mixing in feed for animals other than man except the following: (A) Unmixed seed, whole or processed, made directly from the entire seed, or unmixed or unprocessed whole seeds; (B) Raw meat, hay, straw, stover, silage, cobs, husks, hulls and individual chemical compounds or substances when such commodities, compounds or substances are not intermixed with other materials, and are not adulterated within the meaning of W.S. 11-13-106(c)(ii). (v) "Contract feeder" means a person who as an independent contractor, feeds commercial feed to animals pursuant to a contract whereby the commercial feed is supplied, furnished or otherwise provided to the person and whereby the person's remuneration is determined all or in part by feed consumption, mortality, profits or amount or quality of product; (vi) "Custom formula feed" means commercial feed which consists of a mixture of commercial feeds or feed ingredients each batch of which is manufactured according to the specific instructions of the final purchaser; (vii) "Department" means the state department of agriculture; (viii) "Director" means the director of the department of agriculture; (ix) "Distribute" means to offer for sale, sell, exchange or barter commercial feed or to supply, furnish or otherwise provide commercial feed; (x) "Distributor" means any person who distributes; (xi) "Drug" means any article intended for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment or prevention of disease in animals other than man and articles other than feed intended to affect the structure or any function of the animal body; (xii) "Feed" means commercial feed, pet food and specialty pet food; (xiii) "Feed ingredient" means each of the constituent materials making up a commercial feed; (xiv) "Label" means a display of written, printed or graphic matter upon or affixed to the container in which a commercial feed is distributed, or on the invoice or delivery slip with which a commercial feed or custom formula feed is distributed; (xv) "Labeling" means all labels and other written, printed or graphic matter upon a commercial feed, any of its containers or wrappers, or accompanying such commercial feed; (xvi) "Manufacture" means to grind, mix or blend, or further process a commercial feed for distribution; (xvii) "Medicated feed" means any commercial feed which contains drug ingredients intended for the cure, mitigation, treatment or prevention of diseases of animals, or which contains drug ingredients intended to affect the structure or any function of the body of animals; (xviii) "Mineral feed or mixture" means a commercial feed designed or intended to supply primarily mineral elements or inorganic nutrients; (xix) "Official sample" means any sample of feed taken by and designated as official by the director or his agent; (xx) "Percent" or "percentage" means percentage by weight; (xxi) "Pet" means any domesticated animal normally maintained in or near the household of the owner thereof; (xxii) "Pet food" means any commercial feed prepared and distributed for consumption by pets; (xxiii) "Product name" means the name of the commercial feed which identifies it as to kind, class or specific use; (xxiv) "Specialty pet" means any domesticated animal pet normally maintained in a cage or tank, such as, but not limited to, gerbils, hamsters, canaries, psittacine birds, mynahs, finches, tropical fish, goldfish, snakes and turtles; (xxv) "Specialty pet food" means any commercial feed prepared and distributed for consumption by a specialty pet; (xxvi) "Ton" means a net weight of two thousand (2,000) pounds avoirdupois; (xxvii) "This act" means W.S. 11-13-101 through 11-13-110. (b) The names and definitions for commercial feeds shall be the official definition of feed ingredients adopted by the Association of American Feed Control Officials (AAFCO) and the director, except as he designates otherwise in specific cases, or as specified in this section. (c) The terms used in reference to commercial feeds shall be the official feed terms adopted by the Association of American Feed Control Officials and the director, except as he designates otherwise in specific cases or as specified in this section. (d) Individual chemical compounds and substances are hereby declared exempt from the definition of "commercial feed" under the provisions of this act. The director may exempt a product from the provisions of this act if he finds that the product meets the following criteria: (i) There is an adopted Association of American Feed Control Officials definition for the product; (ii) The product is either generally recognized as safe or is not covered by a specific food and drug administration regulation; (iii) The product is either a natural occurring product of relatively uniform chemical composition or is manufactured to meet the Association of American Feed Control Officials definition of the product; (iv) The use of the product in the feed industry constitutes a minor portion of its total industrial use; (v) Small quantities of additives, which are intended to impart special desirable characteristics shall be permitted; and (vi) There is no need or problem of control of this product. (e) Nothing in this act shall apply to any contract feeder as defined by this act.