Inspection of Commercial Fertilizers 2010 January 1 through ...

Fertilizer Deficiency and RefundWhen fertilizer is deficient in any element beyond recognized investigational allowances arefund is calculated based on the prices given in Table 2 of this circular. If the refund amounts to $1.00or more for the shipment or lot sampled, the registrant must pay this refund to the consumer, if known;if the consumer is not known, he is required to pass the refund on to a charitable or educationalorganization in the community in which the shortage occurred and to file with the State Chemist areceipt or receipts showing that payment has been made.Investigational AllowancesA sample is considered to have passed inspection if the amount of each plant food elementfound on analysis was equal to or above the amount guaranteed. In making this comparison,investigational allowances are applied to compensate for reasonable and unavoidable variations insampling, in reducing the composite sample tothe working sample, and in making the analyses.Investigational allowances applied to results reported herein are those adopted by theAssociation of American Plant Food Control Officials, Inc.A sample is classified as deficient when the analysis of any nutrient is below guarantee by anamount exceeding the values in the following schedule:(1) Fertilizer Investigational AllowancesN P or KGuaranteeNAllowanceP 2 O 5AllowanceK 2 OAllowance1 .49 0.67 0.412 .49 0.67 0.413 .49 0.67 0.414 .49 0.67 0.415 .51 0.67 0.436 .52 0.67 0.477 .54 0.68 0.538 .55 0.68 0.609 .57 0.68 0.6510 .58 0.68 0.7011 .59 0.68 0.7612 .61 0.68 0.7913 .62 0.70 0.8314 .63 0.70 0.8715 .65 0.70 0.9016 .67 0.70 0.9417 .68 0.71 0.9618 .70 0.71 1.0119 .71 0.72 1.0320 .72 0.72 1.0821 .73 0.72 1.1022 .75 0.72 1.155