Section 1. This
Act shall be known as the "Livestock and Poultry Feeds Act."
Sec. 2. Enforcing Official. � This Act shall be
administered by the Secretary of Agriculture and Natural Resources thru
the Director, Bureau of Animal Industry.cralaw
Sec. 3. Definitions. � For the purpose of this
Act, the following terms shall mean:
(a) "Secretary" means the Secretary of Agriculture
and Natural Resources.cralaw
(b) "Director" means the Director, Bureau of Animal
Industry.cralaw
(c) "Livestock" means and includes horses, cattle
carabaos, sheep, goats, swine, rabbits, poultry and such other animals
or birds as the Secretary may, from time to time by regulation,
prescribe.cralaw
(d) "Feeds" or "Feeding Stuff" shall include all such
articles used for the purpose of feeding purporting to supply proteins,
carbohydrates, fats, minerals, vitamins, antibiotics and/or correcting
nutritional disorders. Such articles may be locally produced or
imported, mixed or in the form of simple ingredients.cralaw
(e) "Owner" is the person, firm, partnership,
association or corporation applying for the accord registration under
this Act.
(f) "Brand" means any distinctive mark or name
applied to a feed or feeding stuff.cralaw
(g) "Inspector" is any person authorized to enforce
the provisions of this Act.cralaw
(h) "Package" means sack, bag, barrel, bin or any
other container for feeds.cralaw
(i) "Label" means and includes any written, printed
or graphic matter attached or affixed to any package, bale or bundle of
feeds.cralaw
(j) "Regulation" means rules prescribed under the
authority of this Act.cralaw
(k) "Analyst" means any official analyst appointed
under this Act.cralaw
(l) "Ingredients" means any single article of feed or
feeding stuff which enters into the composition of a ration,
concentrate, or supplement.cralaw
(m) "Mixtures" means any combination of two or more
food ingredients used in the manufacture of feeding stuff.
(n) "Concentrates" shall apply to no materials other
than those known as concentrates, and shall include linseed meals,
cotton-seed meals, pea meals, bean meals, peanut meals, coconut meals,
gluten meals, velvet bean meals, soya bean meals, dried yeast grains,
dried vinegar grains, corn germ meal, feeding molasses, gluten feeds,
cotton seed feeds, maize feeds, velvet bean feeds, peanut feeds, dried
distillers' grains, dried brewers' grains, malt sprout, hominy feeds,
rice meals, corn and oat chops, corn feed meal, corn bran, corn and cob
meals, wheat bran, wheat middlings, wheat feed, rye feed, rye
middlings, buckwheat middlings and bucket wheat feed, ground beef or
fish scraps, meat meals, meat and bone meals mixed, dried blood, milk
by-products, mixed feeds, propriety or trade-marked stock and poultry
feeds, and all other materials of a similar nature; but shall not
include the materials defined in this article as roughages, the whole
seed nor pure whole seed nor pure whole grains ground together nor the
unmixed meals, made directly from the entire grains of wheat, rye,
barley, oat, corn, buckwheat and boom corn, nor malt sprouts, when sold
as such by the maltster at retail, nor ground or cracked bone not mixed
with any other substance, nor shall it include poultry feeds consisting
of whole or whole and cracked grains mixed together, with or without
grit, oyster shells or charcoal, when all the ingredients may be
identified by the naked eye.cralaw
(o) "Roughages" shall include dried and ground hays
and straws, dried and ground corn stalks or other parts of the corn
plant not included in the grain, dried beet pulp, oat hulls, barley
hulls, clipped oat by-product, sorghum plant by-products and flax plant
by-products, cotton seed hulls, buckwheat hulls, cocoa shells, grain
screenings or other materials of a similar character. This shall not
include whole ground grains not mixed with any other substances.
Sec. 4. Registration. � (a) Any person,
partnership, firm, corporation or association desiring to engage in the
manufacture, importation, sale or distribution of feeds or feeding
stuffs shall first be registered in the Office of the Director.cralaw
(b) Applications for registration or annual renewal
thereof, shall be made by the person, partnership, firm, corporation or
association marketing, manufacturing, or importing such feeds or
feeding stuffs, or by his accredited agent in such form and manner as
may be prescribed from time to time by regulation.cralaw
(c) An application for registration shall be
accompanied by a registration fee of five pesos for a person, firm,
partnership, corporation or association engaged in the retailing or
distribution of commercial feeds or feeding stuffs, and one hundred
pesos for manufacturers and/or importers of commercial feeds or feeding
stuffs.cralaw
(d) No feeds or feeding stuffs in the form of
complete mixture, concentrate, supplement, or ingredient which have not
been registered with the Director, shall be manufactured, imported,
advertised, sold or offered for sale or held in possession for sale in
the Philippines.
(e) No commercial feeds or feeding stuffs shall be
registered:
1. If the brand thereof is identical, or will likely
be confused, with another brand already applied to a registered feeding
stuff;
2. If the specific name of each and every ingredient
of mixtures, base or concentrates, and supplement is not clearly
stated; or
3. If the feeds or feeding stuffs do not conform to
the provisions of this Act.cralaw
(f) No change in the brand of a registered feed or
feeding stuff shall be made without a written notification to the
Director.
(g) The Director is empowered to recommend to the
Secretary of Agriculture and Natural Resources the cancellation of the
registration of any feed or feeding stuff which is found after proper
investigation to be not in conformity with the provisions of this Act,
in registration, importation, manufacture, distribution, labelling,
advertising or sale.cralaw
Sec. 5. Labelling. � Every package containing feed
or feeding stuff shall be labelled as follows:
1. The original label or tag of imported feeds or
feeding stuffs shall remain attached to each package. In the event that
the original label or tag has been lost or otherwise removed during the
transit, a new label or tag shall be attached with the approval of the
Director to all bags intended for sale.cralaw
2. Labels of imported feed ingredients intended for
sale shall show conspicuously and clearly:
(a) Net weight.cralaw
(b) Brand.cralaw
(c) Name of article.cralaw
(d) Name and address of manufacturer or supplier.cralaw
(e) Minimum crude protein (except mineral mixtures).cralaw
(f) Minimum fat (except mineral mixtures).
(g) Maximum fiber (except mineral mixtures).cralaw
(h) Maximum moisture.cralaw
(i) Registration number of importer.cralaw
3. Labels of imported feed mixtures intended for sale
shall show conspicuously and clearly:
(a) Net weight.cralaw
(b) Name and address of manufacturer and supplier.cralaw
(c) Brand.
(d) Nutritive purpose.cralaw
(e) Minimum crude protein (except in mineral
mixtures).cralaw
(f) Minimum fat (except in mineral mixtures).cralaw
(g) Maximum fiber (except in mineral mixtures).cralaw
(h) Maximum moisture.cralaw
(i) Names of all ingredients used in the mixture.cralaw
(j) Registration number of importer.cralaw
4. Labels of feed mixtures manufactured locally shall
show conspicuously and clearly:
(a) Net weight.cralaw
(b) Name and address of manufacturer.cralaw
(c) Brand.cralaw
(d) Nutritive purpose.cralaw
(e) Minimum crude protein (except mineral
mixtures).
(f) Maximum fiber (except in mineral mixtures).cralaw
(g) Maximum fat (except in mineral mixtures).cralaw
(h) Maximum moisture.cralaw
(i) Names of ingredients used in the mixtures.cralaw
(j) Registration number of manufacturer.cralaw
5. Labels of local grains and/or their by-products,
minerals, and other ingredients sold or to be sold for feed shall show
conspicuously and clearly:
(a) Net weight.
(b) Name of feed (e.g., rice bran, yellow corn, white
corn, ipil-ipil, copra, shell powder, rice hay, etc.)
(c) Conditions: i.e., whole grain cracked, middlings,
ground fine or coarse, etc.cralaw
(d) Class: i.e., first, second or third (as
prescribed by standard set by the Director).cralaw
(e) Name and address of store.cralaw
(f) Registration number of store owner.cralaw
6. Labels of any other feed not covered in the
preceding paragraphs shall be made according to regulations, which from
time to time may be prescribed by the Director with the approval of the
Secretary.
Sec. 6. There should be created in the manner
authorized by law an adequate section or division composed of employees
taken from the present personnel of the Bureau of Animal Industry as
the Director may consider necessary for effectively carrying out the
provisions of this Act.cralaw
Sec. 7. An inspector shall be permitted at all
reasonable times to enter any premises in which feeds are sold or held
in possession for sale or when he has reasonable cause to believe any
feed or feeding stuff is being prepared or has been prepared for sale,
and may take for analysis samples of any feed or feeding stuff there
found without cost.cralaw
Sec. 8. Regulations. � The Director, subject to
the approval of the Secretary, shall promulgate rules and regulations:
(a) Prescribing the basis under which grains and
their by-products may be classified;
(b) Providing for the prevention of false and/or
misleading claims that may be made for any feeding stuff;
(c) Prescribing the definition and uses of such terms
as complete ration, concentrate supplement and/or base as used in
livestock nutrition;
(d) Prescribing disposition of damaged feed or
feeding stuff; and
(e) Prescribing methods of procuring and analysis of
samples according to accepted standard procedure, and such other rules
and regulations as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this
Act.
Sec. 9. Fees and Expenditures. � (a) Aside from
the registration fees as provided in section four, subsection (c) of
this Act, there shall be collected an inspection fee at the rate of
twenty centavos per metric ton of all complete mixed feeds, supplement,
and/or concentrates.cralaw
(b) All fees, charges and other income derived from
the operation of this Act, shall accrue to the Philippine Livestock
Promotion Fund as provided in Commonwealth Act Numbered One hundred and
eighteen, as amended, and shall be deposited with the National Treasury
to the credit of the said fund.cralaw
(c) All expenditures necessary to carry out the
purposes of this Act shall be paid from the unalloted balance of the
Philippine Livestock Promotion Fund created under Commonwealth Act
Numbered One hundred and eighteen, as amended.cralaw
Section 10. Offense and Penalties. � (a) It shall be
unlawful for any person, partnership, firm, corporation or association
to engage in the manufacture, importation, sale or distribution of
feeds or feeding stuffs without having first registered in the Office
of the Director of Animal Industry: Provided, however, That the
provisions of this Act shall not apply to the sale or distribution of
the by-products of grains, such as rice bran, rice crush, corn bran and
corn crush, which are sold in their natural state as feeding stuff
without having been further processed, mixed with other ingredients, or
otherwise manufactured into another form.
(b) Any person, partnership, corporation or
association which will unlawfully use a registration number,
fraudulently lessen or adulterate the feeding value of any feed or
feeding stuff, or tamper with packaged feeds for fraudulent purposes,
wilfully remove, alter, or efface the prescribed tags, labels,
markings, or other information placed on packages of feeds or feeding
stuffs, fraudulently alter or use certificates of analysis of any
official analyst; wilfully obstruct, hinder, resist or in any other way
oppose an inspector in the execution of his duties under this Act; make
unauthorized disposition of feeds placed under detention; import,
manufacture, distribute, advertise, sell, or offer for sale or possess
for sale by any feed which does not conform with or contravenes the
provisions of this Act; or otherwise violate any provision of this Act
and the rules and regulations issued thereunder, shall be punished by a
fine of not less than one thousand pesos and not more than five
thousand pesos or by imprisonment of not more than one year and one
day, or by both, in the discretion of the court.
Section 11. All Acts or parts thereof inconsistent
with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.cralaw
Section 12. This Act shall take effect after thirty
days from the date of its approval.cralaw
Approved: June 16, 1956
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