21 U.S.C. Chapter 15 — EGG PRODUCTS INSPECTION

means an egg that has a broken shell or crack in the shell but has its shell membranes intact and contents not leaking.

means any egg whose shell is free of adhering dirt or foreign material and is not cracked or broken.

means interstate, foreign, or intrastate commerce.

means an egg that has a shell that is unbroken and has adhering dirt or foreign material.

means the shell egg of the domesticated chicken, turkey, duck, goose, or guinea.

means any person who engages in any business in commerce which involves buying or selling any eggs (as a poultry producer or otherwise), or processing any egg products, or otherwise using any eggs in the preparation of human food.

means any dried, frozen, or liquid eggs, with or without added ingredients, excepting products which contain eggs only in a relatively small proportion or historically have not been, in the judgment of the Secretary, considered by consumers as products of the egg food industry, and which may be exempted by the Secretary under such conditions as he may prescribe to assure that the egg ingredients are not adulterated and such products are not represented as egg products.

means any consumer package;

means an egg that has been subjected to incubation and has been removed from incubation during the hatching operations as infertile or otherwise unhatchable.

means eggs of the following descriptions: black rots, yellow rots, white rots, mixed rots (addled eggs), sour eggs, eggs with green whites, eggs with stuck yolks, moldy eggs, musty eggs, eggs showing blood rings, and eggs containing embryo chicks (at or beyond the blood ring stage).

means the application of such inspection methods and techniques as are deemed necessary by the responsible Secretary to carry out the provisions of this chapter.

means:

means an egg that has a crack or break in the shell and shell membranes to the extent that the egg contents are exposed or are exuding or free to exude through the shell.

means an egg that is unfit for human food because it is smashed or broken so that its contents are leaking;

means any certificate prescribed by regulations of the Secretary for issuance by an inspector or other person performing official functions under this chapter.

means any device prescribed or authorized by the Secretary for use in applying any official mark.

means any symbol prescribed by regulations of the Secretary showing that egg products were inspected in accordance with this chapter.

means the official inspection legend or any other symbol prescribed by regulations of the Secretary to identify the status of any article under this chapter.

means any plant, as determined by the Secretary, at which inspection of the processing of egg products is maintained by the Department of Agriculture under the authority of this chapter.

means the standards of quality, grades, and weight classes for eggs, in effect upon the effective date of this chapter, or as thereafter amended, under the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 (60 Stat. 1087, as amended;

includes any box, can, tin, plastic, or other receptacle, wrapper, or cover.

means the subjecting of each particle of egg products to heat or other treatments to destroy harmful viable micro-organisms by such processes as may be prescribed by regulations of the Secretary.

means any individual, partnership, corporation, association, or other business unit.

means any place of business where egg products are processed.

means manufacturing egg products, including breaking eggs or filtering, mixing, blending, pasteurizing, stabilizing, cooling, freezing, drying, or packaging egg products.

means any check, dirty egg, incubator reject, inedible, leaker, or loss.

means the Secretary of Agriculture or his delegate.

means any container used in packaging a product packed in an immediate container.

means any State of the United States, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands of the United States, and the District of Columbia.

means the States.