8 CCR 1202-4 Part 2 - DEFINITIONS
2.1 The Official
Publication of the Association of American Plant Food Control Officials, Inc.
shall mean the 2022 Official Publication of the Association of American Plant
Food Control Officials, Inc. ("AAPFCO"), effective January 1, 2022. This Rule
incorporates by reference the AAPFCO standards and guidelines. The Rule does
not adopt any later amendments to, or editions of, the AAPFCO standards and
guidelines. A copy of the Official Publication of the Association of American
Plant Food Control Officials, Inc. shall be kept In the Department of
Agriculture, located at 305 Interlocken Parkway, Broomfield Colorado 80021, and
shall be open to public inspection, and available for copying, during normal
business hours. A copy of the official publication shall also be available
online at: http://www.aapfco.org/.
This, and any other material that is incorporated by reference, may be examined
at any state publications depository library.
2.2 These Rules incorporate the official
terms and official fertilizer definitions as published in the 2022 Official
Publication of the Association of American Plant Food Control Officials, Inc.
(AAPFCO), , except as the Commissioner of Agriculture ("Commissioner")
designates otherwise in specific cases.
2.3 "Soil conditioner" means a substance or a
mixture of substances intended to improve the chemical, physical, biochemical,
or biological characteristics of the soil for the purpose of growing plants.
"Soil conditioner" is synonymous with "soil amendment." It does not include
commercial fertilizers, plant amendments, untreated manures, compost and
treated manures that are distributed without soil conditioner labeling
claims.
2.4 "Potting Soil" and
"Planting Mix" means a material suitable for holding and growing plants in
containers. It may include small amounts of fertilizer or pesticide.
2.5 "Beneficial Substances or Compounds"
means any substance or compound, other than primary, secondary and micro plant
nutrients, that can be demonstrated by peer reviewed scientific research to be
beneficial to one or more species or plants, when applied
exogenously.
2.6 "Ingredient
Statement" means a collective and contiguous listing of the ingredients of
which a soil conditioner or plant amendment is composed listed in descending
order by their predominance by volume or weight as appropriate in
non-quantitative terms.
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