[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 7, Volume 3]
[Revised as of January 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 7CFR57.200]

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                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
 CHAPTER I--AGRICULTURAL MARKETING SERVICE \1\ (STANDARDS, INSPECTIONS, 
       MARKETING PRACTICES), DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE (CONTINUED)
 
PART 57_INSPECTION OF EGGS (EGG PRODUCTS INSPECTION ACT)--Table of Contents
 
         Subpart A_Regulations Governing the Inspection of Eggs
 
Sec.  57.200  Records and related requirements.

    (a) Persons engaged in the business of transporting, shipping, or 
receiving any eggs in commerce, or holding such articles so received, 
and all egg handlers, including hatcheries, shall maintain for 2 years 
records showing the receipt, delivery, sale, movement, and disposition 
of all eggs handled by them, and upon the request of an authorized 
representative of the Secretary, shall permit the representative, at 
reasonable times, to have access to and to copy all such records.
    (b) All egg handlers shall maintain production records as approved 
by the Administrator. The records (bills of sale, inventories, receipts) 
shall show the name and address of the shipper and receiver, the date of 
the transaction, the quality of the eggs (graded eggs, nest-run eggs, 
dirties, checks, leakers, loss, inedible eggs), and the quantity of the 
eggs (amount). Producers who ship all of their production as nest-run 
eggs without segregation need only to maintain records indicating the 
amount of shell eggs shipped, date of shipment, and the receivers' name 
and address.

[69 FR 57167, Sept. 24, 2004]