[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 9, Volume 2]
[Revised as of January 1, 2008]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 9CFR590.240]

[Page 688]
 
                  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. 590.240  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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