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Alfalfa Meal - the aerial portion of the alfalfa
plant, reasonably free from other crop plants, weeds and mold,
which has been sun cured and finely ground.
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Animal Digest - material which results from chemical
and/or enzymatic hydrolysis of clean and un-decomposed animal
tissue. The animal tissues used shall be exclusive of hair,
horns, teeth, hooves and feathers, except in such trace amounts
as might occur unavoidably in good factory practice and shall be
suitable for animal feed.
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Animal Fat - is obtained from the tissues of mammals
and/or poultry in the commercial processes of rendering or
extracting. It consists predominantly of glyceride esters of
fatty acids and contains no additions of free fatty acids. If an
antioxidant is used, the common name or names must be indicated,
followed by the words "used as a preservative".
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Barley - consists of at least 80 percent sound barley
and must not contain more than 3 percent heat-damaged kernels, 6
percent foreign material, 20 percent other grains or 10 percent
wild oats.
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Barley Flour - soft, finely ground and bolted barley
meal obtained from the milling of barley. It consists
essentially of the starch and gluten of the endosperm.
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Beef (meat) - is the clean flesh derived from
slaughtered cattle, and is limited to that part of the striate
muscle which is skeletal or that which is found in the tongue,
in the diaphragm, in the heart, or in the esophagus; with or
without the accompanying and overlying fat and the portions of
the skin, sinew, nerve and blood vessels which normally
accompany the flesh.
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Beet Pulp ("beet pulp, dried molasses" and "beet pulp,
dried, plain") - the dried residue from sugar beets.
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Brewer's Rice - the dried extracted residue of rice
resulting from the manufacture of wort (liquid portion of malted
grain) or beer and may contain pulverized dried spent hops in an
amount not to exceed 3 percent.
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Brown Rice - unpolished rice after the kernels have
been removed. Not a complete AAFCO definition.
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Carrots - presumably carrots. No AAFCO definition.
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Chicken - the clean combination of flesh and skin
with or without accompanying bone, derived from the parts or
whole carcasses of chicken or a combination thereof, exclusive
of feathers, heads, feet and entrails.
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Chicken By-Product Meal - consists of the ground,
rendered, clean parts of the carcass of slaughtered chicken,
such as necks, feet, undeveloped eggs and intestines, exclusive
of feathers, except in such amounts as might occur unavoidable
in good processing practice.
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Chicken Liver Meal - chicken livers which have been
ground or otherwise reduced in particle size.
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Chicken Meal - chicken which has been ground or
otherwise reduced in particle size.
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Corn - unspecified corn product. Not a complete AAFCO
definition.
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Corn Bran - the outer coating of the corn kernel,
with little or none of the starchy part of the germ.
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Corn Germ Meal (Dry Milled) - ground corn germ which
consists of corn germ with other parts of the corn kernel from
which part of the oil has been removed and is the product
obtained in the dry milling process of manufacture of corn meal,
corn grits, hominy feed and other corn products.
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Corn Gluten - that part of the commercial shelled
corn that remains after the extraction of the larger portion of
the starch, gluten, and term by the processes employed in the
wet milling manufacture of corn starch or syrup.
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Corn Gluten Meal - the dried residue from corn after
the removal of the larger part of the starch and germ, and the
separation of the bran by the process employed in the wet
milling manufacture of corn starch or syrup, or by enzymatic
treatment of the endosperm.
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Corn Syrup - concentrated juice derived from corn.
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Cracked Pearl Barley - cracked pearl barley resulting
from the manufacture of pearl barley from clean barley.
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Dehydrated Eggs - dried whole poultry eggs freed of
moisture by thermal means.
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Digest of Beef - material from beef which results
from chemical and/or enzymatic hydrolysis of clean and
un-decomposed tissue. The tissues used shall be exclusive of
hair, horns, teeth and hooves, except in such trace amounts as
might occur unavoidably in good factory practice.
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Digest of Beef By-Products - material from beef which
results from chemical and/or enzymatic hydrolysis of clean and
un-decomposed tissue from non-rendered clean parts, other than
meat, from cattle which includes, but is not limited to, lungs,
spleen, kidneys, brain, livers, blood, bone, partially defatted
low-temperature fatty tissue, and stomachs and intestines freed
of their contents. It does not include hair, horns, teeth and
hoofs.
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Digest of Poultry By-Products - material which
results from chemical and/or enzymatic hydrolysis of clean and
un-decomposed tissue from non-rendered clean parts of carcasses
of slaughtered poultry such as heads, feet, viscera, free from
fecal content and foreign matter except in such trace amounts as
might occur unavoidably in good factory practice.
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Dried Animal Digest - dried material resulting from
chemical and/or enzymatic hydrolysis of clean and un-decomposed
animal tissue. The animal tissue used shall be exclusive of
hair, horns, teeth, hooves and feathers, except in such trace
amounts as might occur unavoidably in good factory practice and
shall be suitable for animal feed. If it bears a name
descriptive of its kind or flavor(s), it must correspond
thereto.
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Dried Kelp - dried seaweed of the families
Laminaricae and Fu-caeae. If the product is prepared by
artificial drying, it may be called "dehydrated kelp".
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Dried Milk Protein - obtained by drying the
coagulated protein residue resulting from the controlled
co-precipitation of casein, lactalbumin and minor mild proteins
from defatted milk.
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Dried Reduced Lactose Whey - no AAFCO definition
available.
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Dried Whey - the product obtained by removing water
from the whey. It contains not less than 11 percent protein nor
less than 61 percent lactose.
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Feeding Oatmeal - obtained in the manufacture of
rolled oat groats or rolled oats and consists of broken oat
groats, oat groat chips, and floury portions of the oat groats,
with only such quantity of finely ground oat hulls as is
unavoidable in the usual process of commercial milling. It must
not contain more than 4 percent crude fiber.
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Fish Meal - the clean, dried, ground tissue of
un-decomposed whole fish or fish cuttings, either or both, with
or without the extraction of part of the oil.
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Ground Corn (ground ear corn) - the entire ear of
corn ground, without husks, with no greater portion of cob than
occurs in the ear corn in its natural state.
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Ground De-hulled Oats - presumably ground cleaned
oats with hulls removed (ground oat groats). Not an AAFCO
definition.
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Ground Wheat - presumably a coarser grind of wheat
flour. Not an AAFCO definition.
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Ground Whole Brown Rice (Ground Brown Rice) - the
entire product obtained by grinding the rice kernels after the
hulls have been removed.
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Ground Whole Wheat - ground whole kernel, presumably
equivalent to AAFCO's Wheat Mill Run, Wheat Middlings, Wheat
Shorts or Wheat Red Dog, whose principal differences are in the
percentage of crude fiber.
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Ground Yellow Corn - same as ground corn, except that
the corn used is yellow in color.
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Kibbled Corn - obtained by cooking cracked corn under
steam pressure and extruding from an expeller or other
mechanical pressure device.
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Lamb Bone Meal - (steamed) dried & ground product
sterilized by cooking un-decomposed bones with steam under
pressure. Grease, gelatin and meat fiber may or may not be
removed.
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Lamb Digest - material resulting from chemical and/or
enzymatic hydrolysis of clean and un-decomposed lamb. The tissue
used shall be exclusive of hair, horns, teeth and hooves, except
in such trace amounts as might occur unavoidably in good factory
practice and shall be suitable for animal feed.
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Lamb Fat - obtained from the tissues of lamb in the
commercial processes of rendering or extracting. It consists
predominantly of glyceride esters of fatty acids and contains no
additions of free fatty acids. If an antioxidant is used, the
common name or names must be indicated, followed by the words
"used as a preservative".
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Lamb Meal - the rendered product from lamb tissues,
exclusive of blood, hair, hoof, horn, hide trimmings, manure,
stomach and rumen contents except in such amounts as may occur
unavoidably in good processing practices.
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Linseed Meal - the product obtained by grinding the
cake or chips which remain after removal of most of the oil from
flaxseed by a mechanical extraction process. It must contain no
more than 10 percent fiber. The words "mechanical extracted" are
not required when listing as an ingredient in the manufactured
food.
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Liver - the hepatic gland (of whatever species is
listed).
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Meat and Bone Meal - the rendered product from mammal
tissues, including bone, exclusive of blood, hair, hoof, horn,
hide trimmings, manure, stomach and rumen contents, except in
such amounts as may occur unavoidably in good processing
practices.
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Meat By-Products - the non rendered, clean parts,
other than meat, derived from slaughtered mammals. It includes,
but is not limited to, lungs, spleen, kidneys, brain, livers,
blood, bone, partially defatted low-temperature fatty tissue and
stomachs and intestines freed of their contents. It does not
include hair, horns, teeth and hooves.
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Meat Meal - the rendered product from mammal tissues,
exclusive of blood, hair, hoof, horn, hide trimmings, manure,
stomach and rumen contents except in such amounts as may occur
unavoidably in good processing practices.
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Peas - peas.
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Potatoes - potatoes.
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Poultry By-Product Meal - consists of the ground,
rendered, clean parts of the carcass of slaughtered poultry,
such as necks, feet, undeveloped eggs, intestines, exclusive of
feathers, except in such amounts as might occur unavoidably in
good processing practices.
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Poultry Digest - material which results from chemical
and/or enzymatic hydrolysis of clean and un-decomposed poultry
tissue.
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Poultry Fat (feed grade) - primarily obtained from
the tissue of poultry in the commercial process of rendering or
extracting. It shall contain only the fatty matter natural to
the product produced under good manufacturing practices and
shall contain no added free fatty acids or other materials
obtained from fat. It must contain not less than 90 percent
total fatty acids and not more than 3 percent of
un-saponifiables and impurities. It shall have a minimum titer
of 33 degrees Celsius. If an antioxidant is used, the common
name or names must be indicated, followed by the word
"preservative(s)".
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Powdered Cellulose - purified, mechanically
disintegrated cellulose prepared by processing alpha cellulose
obtained as a pulp from fibrous plant materials.
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Rice Bran - the pericarp or bran layer and germ of
the rice, with only such quantity of hull fragments, chipped,
broken, or brewer's rice, and calcium carbonate as is
unavoidable in the regular milling of edible rice.
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Rice Flour
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Soy Flour
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Soybean Hulls - consist primarily of the outer
covering of the soybean.
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Soybean Meal (De-hulled, solvent Extracted) -
obtained by grinding the flakes remaining after removal of most
of the oil from de-hulled soybeans by a solvent extraction
process.
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Soybean Meal (Mechanical Extracted) - obtained by
grinding the cake or chips which remain after removal of most of
the oil from the soybeans by a mechanical extraction process.
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Soybean Mill Run - composed of soybean hulls and such
bean meats that adhere to the hulls and such bean meats that
adhere to the hulls which results from normal milling operations
in the production of de-hulled soybean meal.
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Tallow - animal fats with titer above 40 degrees
Celsius.
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Turkey - unspecified turkey. Not a complete AAFCO
description.
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Turkey Meal - the ground clean combination of flesh
and skin with or without accompanying bone, derived from the
parts or whole carcasses of turkey or a combination thereof,
exclusive of feathers, heads, feet and entrails.
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Wheat Bran - the coarse outer covering of the wheat
kernel as separated from cleaned and scoured wheat in the usual
process of commercial milling.
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Wheat Flour - wheat flour together with fine
particles of wheat bran, wheat germ and the offal from the "tail
of the mill". This product must be obtained in the usual process
of commercial milling and must not contain more than 1.5 percent
crude fiber.
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Wheat Germ Meal - consists chiefly of wheat germ
together with some bran and middlings or short. It must contain
not less than 25 percent crude protein and 7 percent crude fat.
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Wheat Mill Run - coarse wheat bran, fine particles of
wheat bran, wheat shorts, wheat germ, wheat flour and the offal
from the "tail of the mill". This product must be obtained in
the usual process of commercial milling and must contain not
more than 9.5 percent crude fiber.
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Whey - the product obtained as a fluid by separating
the coagulum from milk, cream or skimmed milk and from which a
portion of the milk fat may have been removed.