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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>60623</law_id><section_number>3.2-4808</section_number><catch_line>Adulteration</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>3.2-4800</reference><reference>3.2-4810</reference><reference>3.2-4812</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="3.2">Agriculture, Animal Care, and Food</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="III">Production and Sale of Agricultural Products</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="48">Commercial Feed</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> It is unlawful for any person who is a <span class="dictionary">manufacturer</span> or <span class="dictionary">guarantor</span> of a <span class="dictionary">commercial feed</span> to <span class="dictionary">distribute</span> a <span class="dictionary">commercial feed</span> if the <span class="dictionary">commercial feed</span>: <a id="paragraph-221561" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/3.2-4808/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="A1" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">1.</span> Contains any poisonous or deleterious substance that may render the <span class="dictionary">commercial feed</span> or its packaging injurious to health, unless the poisonous or deleterious substance is not an added substance and is not of sufficient quantity to render the <span class="dictionary">commercial feed</span> injurious to health under ordinary circumstances; <a id="paragraph-221562" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/3.2-4808/#A1"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="A2" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">2.</span> Contains any added poisonous, added deleterious, or added nonnutritive substance that is unsafe within the meaning of Section 406 of the Federal Food, <span class="dictionary">Drug</span>, and Cosmetic Act. If the substance is a food additive or a pesticide chemical in or on a raw agricultural commodity, then subdivisions A 3 and A 4 shall govern; <a id="paragraph-221563" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/3.2-4808/#A2"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="A3" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">3.</span> Is, bears, or contains any food additive that is unsafe within the meaning of Section 409 of the Federal Food, <span class="dictionary">Drug</span>, and Cosmetic Act; <a id="paragraph-221564" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/3.2-4808/#A3"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="A4" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">4.</span> Is a raw agricultural commodity and it bears or contains a pesticide chemical that is unsafe within the meaning of Section 408 (a) of the Federal Food, <span class="dictionary">Drug</span>, and Cosmetic Act. If a pesticide chemical has been used in or on a raw agricultural commodity in conformity within an exemption granted, or a tolerance prescribed, under Section 408 of the Federal Food, <span class="dictionary">Drug</span>, and Cosmetic Act and such raw agricultural commodity has been subjected to processing such as canning, cooking, freezing, dehydrating, or milling, then the residue of such pesticide chemical remaining in or on such processed feed shall not be deemed unsafe, so long as: (i) such residue in or on the raw agricultural commodity has been removed to the extent possible within good manufacturing practice; (ii) the concentration of such residue in the processed feed is not greater than the tolerance prescribed by Section 408 of the Federal Food, <span class="dictionary">Drug</span>, and Cosmetic Act for the raw agricultural commodity; and (iii) the feeding of such processed feed will not result, or be likely to result, in a pesticide residue in the edible produce of the <span class="dictionary">animal</span>, and that pesticide residue is unsafe within the meaning of Section 408 (a) of the Federal Food, <span class="dictionary">Drug</span>, and Cosmetic Act; <a id="paragraph-221565" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/3.2-4808/#A4"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="A5" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">5.</span> Is, bears or contains any color additive that is unsafe within the meaning of Section 721 of the Federal Food, <span class="dictionary">Drug</span>, and Cosmetic Act; <a id="paragraph-221566" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/3.2-4808/#A5"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="A6" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">6.</span> Is, bears, or contains any new <span class="dictionary">animal</span> <span class="dictionary">drug</span> that is unsafe within the meaning of Section 512 of the Federal Food, <span class="dictionary">Drug</span>, and Cosmetic Act; <a id="paragraph-221567" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/3.2-4808/#A6"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="A7" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">7.</span> Has had any valuable constituent, in whole or in part, omitted or abstracted from the <span class="dictionary">commercial feed</span>, or any less valuable substance substituted into the <span class="dictionary">commercial feed</span>; <a id="paragraph-221568" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/3.2-4808/#A7"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="A8" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">8.</span> Has had the composition or quality of the <span class="dictionary">commercial feed</span> fall below or differ from that which the <span class="dictionary">manufacturer</span> or <span class="dictionary">guarantor</span> purports or represents the <span class="dictionary">commercial feed</span> to possess by its <span class="dictionary">labeling</span>; <a id="paragraph-221569" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/3.2-4808/#A8"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="A9" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">9.</span> Contains a <span class="dictionary">drug</span>, and the methods used in, or the facilities or controls used for, its <span class="dictionary">manufacture</span>, processing, or packaging do not conform to current good manufacturing practice; or if the <span class="dictionary">drug</span> does not conform to regulations adopted by the <span class="dictionary">Board</span>, to assure that the <span class="dictionary">drug</span> meets the requirements of this chapter as to safety, and to assure that the <span class="dictionary">drug</span> has the identity, strength, quality, and purity characteristics that it purports or is represented to possess. In adopting such regulations, the <span class="dictionary">Board</span> shall adopt the current good manufacturing practice regulations for Type A Medicated Articles, and Type B, and Type C <span class="dictionary">Medicated Feeds</span>, established under authority of the Federal Food, <span class="dictionary">Drug</span>, and Cosmetic Act, unless the <span class="dictionary">Board</span> determines that such regulations are not appropriate to the conditions that exist in the Commonwealth; or <a id="paragraph-221570" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/3.2-4808/#A9"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="A10" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">10.</span> Contains viable weed seeds in amounts exceeding the limits as specified in the regulations of the <span class="dictionary">Board</span>. Nothing in this subdivision shall apply to whole unprocessed seeds. <a id="paragraph-221571" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/3.2-4808/#A10"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> The violation of any provision of this section shall be deemed to be adulteration. <a id="paragraph-221572" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/3.2-4808/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>1994, c. 743, &#xA7; 3.1-828.10; 2008, c. 860.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
