Fertilizers Regulations
Version of the schedule from 2011-09-30 to 2020-10-25:
SCHEDULE II(Paragraph 3.1(3)(a) and sections 12 and 20)
Names and Standards of Fertilizers and Supplements
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| Item | Composition | Designated Names |
| CLASS 1: NITROGEN PRODUCTS | ||
| 1.1 | Ammonium salt of nitric acid containing not less than 33% nitrogen, 1/2 of which is in the ammonium form and 1/2 in the nitrate form | Ammonium nitrate (Specify grade.) |
| 1.2 | Ammonium salt of sulphuric acid containing not less than 20% nitrogen | Ammonium sulphate (Specify grade.) |
| 1.3 | Double salt of ammonium sulphate and ammonium nitrate present in equal molecular proportions containing not less than 26% nitrogen, 1/4 of which is in the nitrate form and 3/4 in the ammonium form | Ammonium sulphate-nitrate (Specify grade.) |
| 1.4 | Ammonia gas compressed to liquid form containing not less than 82% nitrogen | Anhydrous ammonia (Specify grade.) |
| 1.5 | Calcium salt of nitric acid containing not less than 15% nitrogen | Calcium nitrate or nitrate of lime (Specify grade.) |
| 1.6 | Sodium salt of nitric acid containing not less than 16% nitrogen | Sodium nitrate or nitrate of soda (Specify grade.) |
| 1.7 | Sodium and potassium salts of nitric acid containing not less than 15% nitrogen and 10% potash | Sodium and potassium nitrate or nitrate of soda and potash (Specify grade.) |
| 1.8 | Non-pressurized solutions represented for topical application to soils or plants, consisting of ammonia, urea and ammonium nitrate, or a mixture of these, containing not less than 20% nitrogen, of which the free ammonia gas content in the solution does not form a part of the guarantee or exceed 10,000 parts per million | Nitrogen solutions (non-pressurized) (Specify grade.) |
| 1.9 | Pressurized solutions represented for soil incorporation consisting of ammonia, urea and ammonium nitrate, or a mixture thereof, containing not less than 20% nitrogen | Nitrogen solutions (pressurized) (Specify grade.) |
| 1.10 | A product consisting of ammonia and water containing not less than 20% nitrogen | Aqua ammonia or ammonia liquor (Specify grade.) |
| 1.11 | Collected blood of slaughtered animals, dried and ground, containing not less than 12% nitrogen | Blood meal (Specify grade.) |
| 1.12 | A product consisting principally of calcium cyanamide (CaNCN) and carbon containing not less than 20% nitrogen | Cyanamide (Specify grade.) |
| 1.13 | Fish tissue, bone and waste heated under live steam, dried and ground | Fish meal or fish scrap (Specify grade.) |
| 1.14 | The rendered, dried, ground and screened organic product derived from waste household food materials | Garbage tankage (Specify grade.) |
| 1.15 | Processed, dried, ground hoofs and horns, ground to a fineness whereby at least 40% passes through a sieve having openings that are square and are each 0.149 mm (100 mesh TYLER screen) in width | Hoof and horn meal (Specify grade.) |
| 1.16 | Dried and ground excreta of birds or other animals with or without litter, containing not less than 50% organic matter and designated as to kind and condition | Manure (Specify grade.) |
| 1.17 | Slaughterhouse refuse and offal mixed with straw or other organic absorbent, containing not less than 60% organic matter | Paunch manure (Specify grade.) |
| 1.18 | Compost produced using the organic matter fraction of the excreta of animals or birds, with or without litter. The compost may use as little as 60% manure and as much as 40% of a carbon source, if the ratio reflects the need for a carbon source when composting the manure, and if the carbon source includes only materials that may be used as litter, such as straw, hay, bark, sawdust, wood chips, shavings, leaves, grass, wood chunks (such as branches and leaves), tree clippings and plant residues but not including treated wood or materials that have been chemically or biologically contaminated | Composted manure (Specify grade.) |
| 1.19 | Products made from sewage, freed from grit and coarse solids, that are dried, ground and screened | Processed sewage (Specify grade.) |
| 1.20 | The rendered, dried and ground product from animal tissue and residue | Tankage (Specify grade.) |
| 1.21 | The commercial synthetic acid amide of carbonic acid containing not less than 45% nitrogen | Urea (Specify grade.) |
| 1.22 | The reaction product of urea and formaldehyde containing not more than 34% nitrogen of which 60% is in a water-insoluble form and tests not less than 40% active by the nitrogen activity index for urea-formaldehyde compounds | Urea-formaldehyde (Specify grade.) |
| 1.23 | The reaction product of urea and formaldehyde containing not less than 35% nitrogen of which at least 60% is in a water-insoluble form and tests not less than 40% active by the nitrogen activity index for urea-formaldehyde compounds | Urea-form (Specify grade.) |
| 1.24 | The condensation product of isobutyraldehyde and urea containing at least 31% nitrogen of which at least 90% is, before grinding, in a water-insoluble form | Isobutylidene diurea or I.B.D.U. (Specify grade.) |
| 1.25 | A commercial product principally of the formula (NH4)2S2O3 that contains not less than 12% nitrogen and 26% sulphur | Ammonium thiosulphate (Specify grade.) |
| 1.26 | A water-soluble condensation product resulting from the reaction of two molecules of formaldehyde with three molecules of urea, with the elimination of two molecules of water. It has a minimum nitrogen content of 41% and is a source of slowly available nitrogen | Dimethylenetriurea or DMTU (Specify grade.) |
| 1.27 | A product manufactured from feathers by treatment with steam under pressure. The addition of 0.5% sulphuric acid facilitates the hydrolysis at lower temperatures. The nitrogen content ranges from 11 to 14% | Hydrolysed feather meal (Specify grade.) |
| 1.28 | A water-soluble condensation product resulting from the reaction of one molecule of formaldehyde with two molecules of urea, with the elimination of one molecule of water. It has a minimum nitrogen content of 42% and is a source of slowly available nitrogen | Methylenediurea or MDU (Specify grade.) |
| 1.29 | The ground residues of soybeans from which oil has been extracted and which contain not less than 6% nitrogen | Soybean meal (Specify grade.) |
| 1.30 | A coated slow-release fertilizer consisting of urea particles coated with sulphur. The product may be further coated with a sealant (2 to 3% of total weight). The product contains 30 to 45% nitrogen and 5 to 30% sulphur | Sulphur coated urea (Specify grade.) |
| 1.31 | A water-soluble compound of formula C2H7N3O that contains at least 41% nitrogen (CAS No. 7098-14-6; 1,3,5-triazin-2-one, tetrahydro-S-triazone) | Triazone (Specify grade.) |
| 1.32 | A stable solution resulting from a controlled reaction in an aqueous medium of urea, formaldehyde, and ammonia that contains at least 25% nitrogen. The solution shall contain no more than 40% and not less than 5% nitrogen from unreacted urea and not less than 40% from triazone. All other nitrogen shall be derived from water-soluble, dissolved reaction products of the above reactants. Urea-triazone solution is a source of slowly available nitrogen | Urea-triazone solution (Specify grade.) |
| CLASS 2: PHOSPHORUS PRODUCTS | ||
| 2.1 | A product obtained when superphosphate is treated with ammonia or with solutions that contain ammonia and other compounds of nitrogen | Ammoniated superphosphate (Specify grade.) |
| 2.2 | A product obtained when phosphoric acid (H3PO4) is treated with ammonia, which product consists principally of mono-ammonium phosphate, di-ammonium phosphate or a mixture of those two salts | Ammonia phosphate (Specify grade.) |
| 2.3 | A product obtained when a mixture of phosphoric acid (H3PO4) and sulphuric acid is treated with ammonia, which product consists principally of a mixture of ammonium phosphate and ammonium sulphate | Ammonium phosphate-sulphate (Specify grade.) |
| 2.4 | A by-product in the manufacture of steel in blast furnaces containing not less than 14% available phosphoric acid and 16% total phosphoric acid ground to a fineness whereby at least 80% passes through a sieve having openings that are square and are each 0.149 mm (100 mesh TYLER screen) in width | Basic slag (Specify grade.) |
| 2.5 | Blood and bone, from animals, processed by wet or dry rendering with or without solvents, dried and ground; it shall contain not less than 6% nitrogen, 5% available phosphoric acid and 11% total phosphoric acid | Blood and Bone meal (Specify grade.) |
| 2.6 | A manufactured product consisting of di-calcic salt of phosphoric acid | Dicalcium phosphate (Specify grade.) |
| 2.7 | A product of a mine containing not less than 25% total phosphoric acid, ground to a fineness whereby at least 80% passes through a sieve having openings that are square and are each 0.149 mm (100 mesh TYLER screen) in width | Natural rock phosphate (Specify grade.) |
| 2.8 | A product obtained when natural rock phosphate is treated with sulphuric acid, phosphoric acid (H3PO4) or a mixture of both acids, which product contains not less than 18% available phosphoric acid | Superphosphate (Specify grade.) |
| 2.9 | Ground bone or bone meal that has been treated with sulphuric acid | Acidulated bone (Specify grade.) |
| 2.10 | Animal bones that are treated under live steam and are dried and ground to a fineness of whereby at least 40% passes through a sieve having openings that are square and are 0.149 mm (100 mesh TYLER screen) in width | Bone meal (Specify grade.) |
| 2.11 | A product consisting mainly of dicalcium phosphate obtained by neutralizing, with calcium hydroxide, the acid solution of either phosphate rock or processed bone | Precipitated phosphate (Specify grade.) |
| CLASS 3: POTASSIUM PRODUCTS | ||
| 3.1 | Potassium salt containing not less than 48% soluble potash principally as chlorides | Muriate of potash (Specify grade.) |
| 3.2 | Potassium salt of nitric acid containing not less than 12% nitrogen and 44% soluble potash | Nitrate of potash or potassium nitrate (Specify grade.) |
| 3.3 | Natural potassium salts containing not less than 20% soluble potash principally as chlorides | Potash manure salts (Specify grade.) |
| 3.4 | Potassium salt containing not less than 48% soluble potash principally as sulphates and not more than 2.5% chlorine | Sulphate of potash (Specify grade.) |
| 3.5 | Potassium salt containing not less than 20% soluble potash principally as sulphates and not less than 25% sulphate of magnesium and not more than 2.5% chlorine | Sulphate of potash-magnesia (Specify grade.) |
| 3.6 | A commercial product containing not less than 21% soluble potash (K2O), not less than 53% sulphate of magnesia and not more than 2.5% chlorine | Double sulphate of potash and magnesia or langbeinite (Specify grade.) |
| CLASS 4: CALCIUM AND MAGNESIUM PRODUCTS | ||
| 4.1 | A mineral product that consists principally of calcium sulphate with combined water (CaSO4.2H2O) and that is incapable of neutralizing soil acidity. It shall contain not less than 70% CaSO4.2H2O | Gypsum, landplaster or crude calcium sulphate |
| 4.2 | A product that consists principally of MgSO4, with or without combined water. For example, epsom salts (MgSO4.7H2O), kieserite (MgSO4.H2O) and calcined kieserite (MgSO4) | Magnesium sulphate |
| CLASS 5: SUPPLEMENT | ||
| 5.1 | A solid mature product resulting from composting, which is a managed process of bio-oxidation of a solid heterogeneous organic substrate, including a thermophilic phase. This product may be designated as to kind | Compost |
| 5.2 | A volcanic glass that has been finely ground and heated to cause expansion | Perlite |
| 5.3 | A product (3MgO.Fe2Al2O3.3SiO2) that is produced when vermiculite ore (a magnesium mica) is heated and expands to many times its original volume. Exfoliate vermiculite weighs from 0.12 to 0.38 kg/L | Vermiculite |
| 5.4 | Homogeneous and friable mixtures of partly decomposed organic matter with or without earth | Humus or leaf mould |
| 5.5 | Partly decayed vegetable matter of natural occurrence accumulated in water | Peat |
- SOR/79-365, s. 18
- SOR/85-558, ss. 11 to 14
- SOR/93-232, s. 2
- SOR/2003-6, s. 76
- SOR/2006-221, s. 14(E)
- SOR/2011-205, ss. 38(F), 39(F), 40
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