{"topic_id":"za_act36_pet_food_framework","category":"za-feed","context":"---\ntopic_id: za_act36_pet_food_framework\ncategory: za-feed\ntitle: \"South Africa — pet food is 'farm feed' under Act 36 of 1947: registration & sale framework\"\nlang: en\nsource: \"Fertilizers, Farm Feeds, Agricultural Remedies and Stock Remedies Act 36 of 1947 (RSA Government Gazette Extraordinary, 17 Jan 1947) — first-hand official text, pulled 2026-08-01 via Tokyo relay from gov.za PDF. Pet food is covered as 'farm feed' because the definition includes feeding of 'domestic animals'.\"\nsource_file: pdf-raw/za-feed/act36_1947.txt\ndate_parsed: 2026-08-01\ntokens_estimated: 640\nverification:\n  method: substring_match\n  claims: 8\n  passed: 8\n  date: 2026-08-01\nrecovered: false\npath: za-feed/za_act36_pet_food_framework/01_za_act36_pet_food_framework.md\nsource_document: \"South Africa Act 36 of 1947 (Fertilizers, Farm Feeds, Agricultural Remedies and Stock Remedies Act)\"\ncitation:\n  authority: \"Republic of South Africa — Department of Agriculture (registering officer under Act 36 of 1947)\"\n  title: \"South Africa — pet food is 'farm feed' under Act 36 of 1947: registration & sale framework\"\n  url: \"https://www.gov.za/sites/default/files/gcis_document/201505/act-36-1947.pdf\"\n  retrieved: \"2026-08-01\"\n  ref: \"Act 36 of 1947, ss. 1, 2, 3, 6\"\n  doc_type: \"official PDF (gazette)\"\n  needs_review: false\n---\n\n# South Africa — pet food is 'farm feed' under Act 36 of 1947: registration & sale framework\n\nSouth Africa's foundational feed law, the **Fertilizers, Farm Feeds, Agricultural Remedies and Stock Remedies Act 36 of 1947**, regulates pet food because its definition of \"farm feed\" explicitly covers anything \"intended or offered for the feeding of **domestic animals** or livestock\". Registration with the registering officer and compliant packing are prerequisites to sale. Detailed pet-food composition/labelling is set in subsidiary regulations under this Act (not quoted here).\n\n## Claims (verified C1 substrings of source_file)\n\n- `intended or offered for the feeding of domestic animals or livestock`   (EN: Definition of \"farm feed\" — explicitly includes domestic animals, i.e. pet food — Act 36 of 1947, s. 1.)\n- `but does not include straw, chaff, unground hay, silage, any cereal in the grain`   (EN: Express exclusions from \"farm feed\" — s. 1.)\n- `The Minister shall designate an officer in the Department of Agriculture (hereinafter called the registering officer), who shall be charged with the duty of registering fertilizers, farm feeds, remedies or sterilizing plants.`   (EN: Registration authority — s. 2.)\n- `Every application for the registration of a fertilizer, farm feed, remedy or sterilizing plant shall be submitted to the registering officer in the prescribed form and shall be accompanied by the prescribed registration fee.`   (EN: Application for registration — s. 3(1).)\n- `If after consideration of any such application such officer is satisfied that the fertilizer, farm feed, remedy or sterilizing plant in question is suitable and sufficiently effective for the purposes for which it is intended, and complies with the requirements which may be prescribed, he shall register such fertilizer, farm feed, remedy or sterilizing plant.`   (EN: Grounds for registration — s. 3(2).)\n- `No person shall sell any fertilizer, farm feed or remedy unless—`   (EN: Sale prohibition headline — s. 6.)\n- `(a) it is registered under this Act;`   (EN: Sale condition (a) — must be registered under this Act — s. 6(a).)\n- `(b) it is packed in such manner as may be prescribed;`   (EN: Sale condition (b) — prescribed packing — s. 6(b).)\n\n---\n\n**Source:** `pdf-raw/za-feed/act36_1947.txt` · https://www.gov.za/sites/default/files/gcis_document/201505/act-36-1947.pdf\n","sources":["South Africa — Fertilizers, Farm Feeds, Agricultural Remedies and Stock Remedies Act 36 of 1947 — South Africa — pet food is 'farm feed' under Act 36 of 1947: registration & sale framework (retrieved 2026-08-01)"],"source":{"authority":"South Africa — Fertilizers, Farm Feeds, Agricultural Remedies and Stock Remedies Act 36 of 1947","title":"South Africa — pet food is 'farm feed' under Act 36 of 1947: registration & sale framework","url":"https://www.gov.za/sites/default/files/gcis_document/201505/act-36-1947.pdf","retrieved":"2026-08-01","ref":"","doc_type":"official PDF","source_document":"South Africa Act 36 of 1947 (Fertilizers, Farm Feeds, Agricultural Remedies and Stock Remedies Act)","verification_file":"pdf-raw/za-feed/act36_1947.txt"},"source_document":"South Africa Act 36 of 1947 (Fertilizers, Farm Feeds, Agricultural Remedies and Stock Remedies Act)","source_file":"pdf-raw/za-feed/act36_1947.txt","tokens_estimated":679,"generated_at":null,"tip":"Use /api/v1/topics to discover more topics. /api/v1/nutrient for precise single-point queries. /api/v1/cross_compare for 2-3 standard comparisons."}