[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: 9CFR590.50]

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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. 590.50  Temperature and labeling requirements.

    (a) No shell egg handler shall possess any shell eggs that are 
packed into containers destined for the ultimate consumer unless they 
are stored and transported under refrigeration at an ambient temperature 
of no greater than 45 deg.F (7.2 deg.C).
    (b) No shell egg handler shall possess any shell eggs that are 
packed into containers destined for the ultimate consumer unless they 
are labeled to indicate that refrigeration is required.

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    (c) Any producer-packer with an annual egg production from a flock 
of 3,000 or fewer hens is exempt from the temperature and labeling 
requirements of this section.

[63 FR 45675, Aug. 27, 1998]

                               Exemptions