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AMS Interim Rule Extends Use of Methionine in Organic Poultry

The Agricultural Marketing Service has issued an interim rule, effective October 1, 2010, which amends the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National List of Allowed and Prohibited Substances by revising the annotation of methionine to extend its use in organic poultry…

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production until October 1, 2012, at the following maximum levels of synthetic methionine per ton of feed: laying chickens - 4 pounds; broiler chickens -- 5 pounds; turkeys and all other poultry - 6 pounds. Comments are due by October 25, 2010.