Additional label requirements for lime products.

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(1) The name of the particular form of lime. Forms of lime may include, but are not limited to, burnt lime, dolomite, ground limestone, lime sludge, shells, sugar lime and waste lime.

(2) The guaranteed analysis, stating the following:

(a) The percentage of calcium oxide (CaO) or calcium carbonate (CaCO3).

(b) The percentage of magnesium oxide (MgO) or magnesium carbonate (MgCO3).

(c) The total neutralizing capacity expressed in terms of calcium carbonate equivalent (CCE).

(d) The percentage of product that will pass, respectively, a 100-mesh, 40-mesh, 20-mesh and 10-mesh sieve. The mesh size declaration may include a declaration of the percentage of product that will pass additional mesh sizes, but the mesh sizes specified in this paragraph must be included in the mesh size declaration.

(e) The lime score.

(f) The maximum moisture content if the moisture content is more than two percent, expressed in whole numbers as follows: "Moisture content does not exceed _____ percent." [2001 c.914 §5; 2009 c.97 §3; 2015 c.514 §6]


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