[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: 9CFR590.960]



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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. 590.960  Small importations for consignee's personal use, display, or laboratory analysis.



    Any egg products which are offered for importation, exclusively for 

the consignee's personal use, display, or laboratory analysis, and not 

for sale or distribution; which is sound, healthful, wholesome, and fit 

for human food; and which is not adulterated and does not contain any 

substance not permitted by the Act or regulations, may be admitted into 

the United States without a foreign inspection certificate. Such product 

is not required to be inspected upon arrival in the United States and 

may be shipped to the consignee without further restriction under this 

part: Provided, That the Department may, with respect to any specific 

importation, require that the consignee certify that such product is 

exclusively for the consignee's personal use, display, or laboratory 

analysis and not for sale or distribution. The amount of such product 

imported shall not exceed 30 pounds of liquid or frozen eggs, or 50 

pounds of dried egg products, unless otherwise authorized by the 

Administrator.



[37 FR 6660, 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]