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Schedule 4Ingredients in stock food—maximum amounts
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# Schedule 4 Ingredients in stock food—maximum amounts
Schedule 4 Ingredients in stock food—maximum amounts
(Clause 40)
| Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3 |
| Ingredient | Kind of stock food | Maximum permitted amount (to be calculated using the dry weight of the stock food on a 12% moisture basis) |
| Clenbuterol | All stock foods | Nil |
| Cadmium | Stock food for cattle, sheep, goats or fish | 1.0 gram per tonne |
| Cadmium | Stock food for animals other than cattle, sheep, goats or fish | 0.5 grams per tonne |
| Lead | All stock foods | 0.2 grams per tonne |
| Mercury | Fish meal for pigs or poultry | 0.4 grams per tonne |
| Mercury | Stock food other than fish meal for pigs or poultry | 0.02 grams per tonne |
| Aflatoxin B1 | Grain and crushed grain | 0.01 grams per tonne |
| Aflatoxin B1 | Manufactured stock foods for beef cattle and sheep | 0.05 grams per tonne |
| Aflatoxin B1 | Manufactured stock foods for weaner or suckling pigs | 0.01 grams per tonne |
| Aflatoxin B1 | Manufactured stock foods for pigs other than weaner or suckling pigs | 0.05 grams per tonne |
| Aflatoxin B1 | Manufactured stock foods for dairy cows | 0.02 grams per tonne |
| Aflatoxin B1 | Manufactured stock foods for ducks | 0.001 grams per tonne |
| Aflatoxin B1 | Manufactured stock foods for layer chickens | 0.02 grams per tonne |
| Aflatoxin B1 | Manufactured stock foods for poultry other than ducks or layer chickens | 0.01 grams per tonne |
| Echium plantagineum (Paterson’s curse) | Grain | 100 seeds per kilogram |
| Heliotropium europaeum (Common heliotrope), andHeliotropium amplexicaule (Blue heliotrope) | Grain | 20 seeds of either species, or of a combination of both species, per kilogram |
| Ricinus communis (Castor-oil plant) | All stock foods | Nil seeds or plant parts |