[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 9, Volume 2]

[Revised as of January 1, 2007]

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



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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, 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]