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Current as of January 01, 2025 | Updated by Findlaw Staff
(1) It is unlawful for any person, firm, partnership, or corporation, including eleemosynary institutions, to feed garbage to animals unless such garbage has been heated throughout to boiling or equivalent temperature for thirty minutes or heated according to a method specifically promulgated by the state agricultural commission; but this requirement shall not apply to an individual who feeds to his own animals only the garbage obtained from his household.
(2) Garbage to be fed to swine located within the state of Colorado shall be cooked or heated as provided in subsection (1) of this section by one or more of the following methods:
(a) Wet steaming or boiling in an open vat;
(b) Dry steaming or boiling in a jacketed kettle;
(c) Steaming in a pressure cylinder;
(d) Steam boilers; or
(e) Direct heating.
Cite this article: FindLaw.com - Colorado Revised Statutes Title 35. Agriculture § 35-52-113. Garbage cooking - last updated January 01, 2025 | https://codes.findlaw.com/co/title-35-agriculture/co-rev-st-sect-35-52-113/
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