[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: 9CFR590.45]



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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. 590.45  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