Section 26-2-293. Vitamins and ingredients in degerminated corn meal and degerminated hominy grits; specification changes; milling process

   (a) It shall be unlawful for any person to manufacture, mix, compound, sell, or offer for sale, for human consumption in this state, any degerminated corn meal or degerminated hominy grits unless the following vitamins and other ingredients are contained in each pound of such products:

   (1) Not less than 2.0 milligrams of vitamin B1 (thiamin);

   (2) Not less than 1.2 milligrams of riboflavin;

   (3) Not less than 16 milligrams of niacin (nicotinic acid) or niacin amide (nicotinic acid amide); and

   (4) Not less than 13 milligrams of iron.

(b) Iron shall be added only in forms which are assimilable and harmless and which do not harm the enriched corn meal or enriched grits.

(c) The substances referred to in subsection (a) of this Code section may be added in a harmless carrier which does not impair the enriched degerminated corn meal or enriched degerminated hominy grits, provided that such carrier is used only in the quantity necessary to effect an intimate and uniform admixture of such substances with the grits or corn meal.

(d) If other vitamins and minerals are added to degerminated corn meal or degerminated hominy grits, they shall be added only in accordance with such pertinent regulations as may be promulgated by the Commissioner of Agriculture.

(e) The Commissioner of Agriculture is authorized to change, or add to, in his discretion, the specifications for ingredients and the amounts thereof in order that they shall conform to the federal definition of enriched degerminated corn meal or enriched degerminated grits when promulgated or as from time to time may be amended.

(f) The enrichment of degerminated corn meal or degerminated hominy grits may be accomplished by a milling process, addition of vitamins from a natural or synthetic source, other enriching ingredients, harmless and assimilable inorganic salts, or by a combination of these methods which will produce enriched grits or enriched corn meal as herein defined.

Ga. L. 1945, p. 425, § 4.