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§ 2308. Packaged Soil Amendments.

3 CA ADC § 2308Barclays Official California Code of RegulationsEffective: April 1, 2022

Barclays California Code of Regulations
Title 3. Food and Agriculture
Division 4. Plant Industry (Refs & Annos)
Chapter 1. Chemistry
Subchapter 1. Fertilizing Materials
Article 1. Standards and Labeling
Effective: April 1, 2022
3 CCR § 2308
§ 2308. Packaged Soil Amendments.
Currentness
(a) Soil amendments shall be measured by volume.
(b) No claim shall be made for chemical composition or nutritive constituents, except as provided in (d), (e), and (f) of this section.
(c) When a soil amendment is labeled as a specific material, such as peat moss or leaf mold, the product shall consist of not less than 95 percent of that material.
(d) Organic products such as bark, wood chips, wood sawdust and peat or peat moss claimed to be nitrogen fortified, nitrogen stabilized, or with other terms to inform that the product contains nitrogen added to compensate for nitrogen likely to be taken from soil due to the amendments decomposition therein, are soil amendments when such additional nitrogen is 0.5 percent or less. Any claim for such nitrogen stabilization or fortification or similar term made on the label of a soil amendment shall be accompanied by a statement of the total percent of nitrogen contained therein.
(e) Soil amendments may contain wetting agents and/or tackifiers.
(1) The claim “wetting agent added” and/or “tackifier added” can be made without guaranteeing the specific wetting agent/tackifier or the percentage of such, but the chemical name of the wetting agent and/or tackifier must be submitted at the time of registration along with the analytical method.
(f) Iron (Fe), may be guaranteed at less than 0.1 percent.
(g) If reference is made to the acidity or alkalinity of the product, or its influence on the soil, the range or specific pH of the product must be guaranteed.

Credits

Note: Authority cited: Sections 407, 14502, 14601 and 14631, Food and Agricultural Code. Reference: Sections 14601 and 14631, Food and Agricultural Code.
History
1. Repealer and new section filed 8-2-91; operative 8-2-91 pursuant to Government Code section 11346.2(d) (Register 92, No. 7).
2. Amendment of subsection (g) filed 6-22-2017; operative 10-1-2017 (Register 2017, No. 25).
3. Amendment of section heading and subsections (a)-(e)(1) filed 4-13-2020; operative 4-13-2020 pursuant to Government Code section 11343.4(b)(3) (Register 2020, No. 16).
4. Amendment of section heading and amendment of subsections (e)-(e)(1) filed 2-23-2022; operative 4-1-2022 (Register 2022, No. 8).
This database is current through 5/10/24 Register 2024, No. 19.
Cal. Admin. Code tit. 3, § 2308, 3 CA ADC § 2308
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