---
kind: "section"
citation: "21 C.F.R. § 573.310"
title: "21"
number: "573.310"
heading: "Crambe meal, heat toasted."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/21/573.310"
---

# §573.310. Crambe meal, heat toasted.

- (a) The additive is the seed meal of Crambe abyssinica obtained after the removal of oil from the seed and hull. The oil may be removed by pre-press solvent extraction or by solvent extraction alone. The resulting seed meal is heat toasted.
- (b) **The additive conforms to the following percent-by-weight specifications—** moisture, not more than 11 percent; oil, not more than 4 percent; crude protein, not less than 24 percent; crude fiber, not more than 26 percent; glucosinolate calculated as epi-progoitrin, not more than 4 percent; goitrin, not more than 0.1 percent; nitrile calculated as 1-cyano-2-hydroxy-3-butene, not more than 1.4 percent. At least 50 percent of the nitrogen shall be soluble in 0.5 M sodium chloride. Myrosinase enzyme activity shall be absent.
- (c) The additive is used or intended for use in the feed of feedlot cattle as a source of protein in an amount not to exceed 4.2 percent of the total ration.

## Notes

### Amendments

[46 FR 30082, June 5, 1981]

### Authority

Authority: 21 U.S.C. 321, 342, 348.

### Source

Source: 41 FR 38652, Sept. 10, 1976, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[46 FR 30082, June 5, 1981]