Kansas Statutes
Article 10 - Commercial Feeding Stuffs
2-1013 Enforcement by secretary of board; rules and regulations; establishment of terms for certain ingredients.

2-1013. Enforcement by secretary of board; rules and regulations; establishment of terms for certain ingredients. (a) The secretary of agriculture is hereby empowered to: (1) Enforce the provisions of article 10 of chapter 2 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated, and amendments thereto; (2) prescribe the form of labels to be used; and (3) adopt and enforce rules and regulations relating to manufacturing practices for commercial feeding stuffs and to the sale, offering for sale or distribution of commercial feeding stuffs as the secretary may deem necessary to carry into effect the lawful intent and meaning of article 10 of chapter 2 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated, and amendments thereto.
(b) The secretary, by rules and regulations, may establish a collective term or terms for two or more ingredients, which ingredients serve a similar nutritional function, and may permit the use of such collective term or terms in the ingredient statement on the label.
(c) Nothing in article 10 of chapter 2 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated, and amendments thereto, shall be construed as requiring the secretary or the authorized representative of the secretary to report for prosecution, institute seizure proceedings or issue a withdrawal from distribution order for any minor violations of article 10 of chapter 2 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated, and amendments thereto, whenever the secretary or the authorized representative of the secretary believes that the public interest will be best served by a suitable notice of warning in writing.
History: L. 1923, ch. 105, § 13; R.S. 1923, § 2-1013; L. 1971, ch. 2, § 4; L. 1987, ch. 7, § 1; L. 1994, ch. 233, § 5; L. 2004, ch. 101, § 19; July 1.

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