[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 9, Volume 2]

[Revised as of January 1, 2006]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 9CFR590.240]



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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)

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Sec. 590.240  Detaining product.



    Whenever any eggs or egg products subject to the Act are found by 

any authorized representative of the Secretary upon any premises, and 

there is reason to believe that they are or have been processed, bought, 

sold, possessed, used, transported, or offered or received for sale or 

transportation in violation of the Act or the regulations in this part, 

or that they are in any other way in violation of the Act, such articles 

may be detained by such representative for a period not to exceed 20 

days, as more fully provided in section 19 of the Act. A detention tag 

or other similar device shall be used to identify detained product, and 

the custodian or owner shall be given a written notice of such 

detention. Only authorized representatives of the Secretary shall affix 

or remove detention identification. The provisions of this section shall 

in no way derogate from authority for condemnation or seizure conferred 

by other provisions of the Act, the regulations in this part, or other 

laws.



[37 FR 6658, Apr. 1, 1972. Redesignated at 42 FR 32514, June 27, 1977, 

and further redesignated at 46 FR 63203, Dec. 31, 1981, as amended at 63 

FR 69972, Dec. 17, 1998]



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