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California Law (Last Updated: March 4, 2014) |
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Food and Agricultural Code - FAC |
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Division 18. FIELD CROPS, SEEDS, SEED POTATOES, ONE-VARIETY COTTON DISTRICTS, AND NURSERY STOCK GRADES AND STANDARDS |
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Chapter 2. California Seed Law |
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ARTICLE 8. Labeling of Seeds |
Section 52452.
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Except as otherwise provided in Section 52454, each container of agricultural seed which is for sale or sold within this state for sowing purposes, unless the sale is an occasional sale of seed grain by the producer of the seed grain to his neighbor for use by the purchaser within the county of production, shall bear upon it or have attached to it in a conspicuous place a plainly written or printed label or tag in the English language, which gives all of the following information:
(a) Commonly accepted name of the kind, kind and variety, or kind and type of each agricultural seed component in excess of 5 percent of the whole, and the percentage by weight of each. If the aggregate of agricultural seed components, each present in an amount not exceeding 5 percent of the whole, exceeds 10 percent of the whole, each component in excess of 1 percent of the whole shall be named together with the percentage by weight of each. If more than one component is required to be named, the names of all components shall be shown in letters of the same type and size.
(b) Lot number or other lot identification.
(c) Percentage by weight of all weed seeds.
(d) The name and approximate number of each kind of restricted noxious weed seed per pound.
(e) Percentage by weight of any agricultural seed except that which is required to be named on the label.
(f) Percentage by weight of inert matter. If a percentage by weight is required to be shown by any provision of this section such percentage shall be exclusive of any substance which is added to the seed as a coating and shown on the label as such.
(g) For each agricultural seed, in excess of 5 percent of the whole, stated in accordance with subdivision (a) of this section, the percentage of germination, exclusive of hard seed; the percentage of hard seed, if present; and the calendar month and year the test was completed to determine such percentages. Following the statement of such percentages, the additional statement "total germination and hard seed" may be stated as such, if desired.
(h) Name and address of the person that labeled the seed, or of the person that sells the seed within this state.
All determinations of noxious weed seeds are subject to tolerances and methods of determination which are prescribed in the regulations which are adopted pursuant to this chapter.