[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 9, Volume 2, Parts 200 to end]
[Revised as of January 1, 2001]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 9CFR590.200]

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                  TITLE 9--ANIMALS AND ANIMAL PRODUCTS
 
     CHAPTER III--FOOD SAFETY AND INSPECTION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF 
                               AGRICULTURE
 
PART 590--INSPECTION OF EGGS AND EGG PRODUCTS (EGG PRODUCTS INSPECTION ACT)--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 590.200  Records and related requirements.

    (a) Persons engaged in the business of transporting, shipping, or 
receiving any eggs or egg products in commerce, or holding such articles 
so received, and all egg handlers, including hatcheries, shall maintain 
records showing, for a period of 2 years, to the extent that they are 
concerned therewith, the receipt, delivery, sale, movement, and 
disposition of all eggs and egg products handled by them, and shall, 
upon the request of an authorized representative of the Secretary, 
permit him, at reasonable times, to have access to and to copy all such 
records.
    (b) Production records by categories of eggs such as graded eggs, 
nest-run eggs, dirties, checks, leakers, loss, inedible, etc., bills of 
sale, inventories, receipts, shipments, shippers, receivers, dates of 
shipment and receipt, carrier names, etc., as determined by the 
Administrator, shall be maintained by all egg processing operations, 
except that, official egg products plants which use all shell eggs 
received and do not reship any shell eggs need only to maintain records 
indicating the amount of eggs received, date received,

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and the name and address of the shipper.

[37 FR 6657, Apr. 1, 1972. Redesignated at 42 FR 32514, June 27, 1977, 
and further redesignated at 46 FR 63203, Dec. 31, 1981, as amended at 47 
FR 745, Jan. 7, 1982; 63 FR 69971, Dec. 17, 1998]