[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 9, Volume 2]
[Revised as of January 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 9CFR590.45]

[Page 674]
 
                  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. 590.45  Prohibition on eggs and egg products not intended for 
use as human food.

    (a) No person shall buy, sell, or transport or offer to buy or sell, 
or offer or receive for transportation in commerce, any eggs or egg 
products which are not intended for use as human food, unless they are 
denatured or decharacterized, unless shipped under seal as authorized in 
paragraphs (c) and (d) of this section or in Sec. Sec. 590.504(c) and 
590.720(a) and identified as required by the regulations in this part.
    (b) No person shall import or export shell eggs classified as loss, 
inedible, or incubator rejects or any egg products which are 
unwholesome, adulterated, or are otherwise unfit for human food 
purposes, except as provided in paragraphs (c) and (d) of this section, 
unless they are denatured or decharacterized and identified as required 
by the regulations in this part.
    (c) Egg products which are unwholesome, adulterated, or are 
otherwise unfit for human food purposes that are not denatured or 
decharacterized may be exported to foreign countries for industrial use 
or animal food under the following provisions:
    (1) Authorized government official of the foreign country shall 
approve the importation of such products into that country.
    (2) The egg products shall be shipped under U.S. Government seal and 
identified as required in Sec. 590.840.
    (3) Provisions for the control of such inedible product in the 
foreign country to preclude its use as human food must be established 
and approved by the Administrator. Such control may consist of, but not 
be limited to, receipt and inspection by an appropriate U.S. Government 
official, an official of an approved meat, poultry, or egg products 
inspection system of the foreign government, or, when acceptable to the 
Administrator, a foreign government official including other foreign 
health authorities.
    (d) Foreign governments may petition the Administrator for approval 
to import into this country egg products which are unwholesome, 
adulterated, or otherwise unfit for human food purposes that are not 
denatured or decharacterized for industrial use or animal food 
requirements. Such products shall be subject to the provisions of this 
part and other applicable laws and regulations for importation into the 
United States.

[48 FR 34238, July 28, 1983]

                       Refrigeration of Shell Eggs