(a) “Mineral feed” means a commercial feed intended to supply primarily mineral elements or inorganic nutrients for animal nutrition.

(b) “Official sample” means a sample of commercial feed taken by the secretary or his agent for regulatory purposes.

(c) “Process” means any treatment that changes a feed ingredient so that it can no longer be restored to its previous form.

(d) “Official name” of ingredients means those defined in Article 14 of this subchapter, provided that in the absence of a definition, the common English name shall be used.

(e) “Food additive” has the same meaning as defined in the Food, Drug and Cosmetics Act 21, United States Code, section 321(s).

(f) “Sell” includes offer for sale, expose for sale, possess for sale, exchange, barter, or trade.

(g) “Inert material” means ingredients that are not assimilated in the digestive process, including sand, granite grit, charcoal and clay.

(h) “Prohibited Mammalian Tissue” is any protein-containing portion of mammalian animals, excluding: blood and blood products, gelatin, inspected meat products which have been cooked and offered for human food and further heat processed for feed (such as plate waste and used cellulosic food casings), milk products (milk and milk proteins), and any product whose only mammalian protein consists entirely of porcine or equine protein; or any material specified in Title 21, Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Parts 589.2000 and 589.2001, April 1, 2022, hereby incorporated by reference.

(i) “Aflatoxins” means aflatoxin B₁, aflatoxin B₂, aflatoxin G₁ and aflatoxin G₂, collectively.

(j) “By-product” means a product produced in addition to the principal product, may be produced during processing, rejected as inferior during the process of grading or separating, or is produced via an industrial or biological process.

(k) “Manufacturing/processing” means making animal food from one or more ingredients, or synthesizing, preparing, treating, modifying, or manipulating animal food, including food crops or ingredients. Examples of manufacturing/processing activities include: Baking, boiling, bottling, canning, cooking, cooling, cutting, distilling, drying/dehydrating raw agricultural commodities to create a distinct commodity (such as drying/dehydrating grapes to produce raisins), evaporating, eviscerating, extracting juice, extruding, formulating, freezing, grinding, homogenizing, irradiating, labeling, milling, mixing, packaging (including modified atmosphere packaging), pasteurizing, peeling, pelleting, rendering, treating to manipulate ripening, trimming, washing, or waxing. For farms and farm mixed-type facilities, manufacturing/processing does not include activities that are part of harvesting, packing, or holding.

(l) “Bulk” means commercial feed distributed in nonpackaged form or in a container containing more than 50 kilograms or 110 pounds.

(m) “Packaged” means commercial feed distributed in packaged form or in a container containing equal to or less than 50 kilograms or 110 pounds.

(n) “Mixed feed” has the same meaning as formula feed as defined under Food and Agricultural Code Section 14930.

(o) “Custom formula feed” means: