[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: 9CFR592.90]

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                  TITLE 9--ANIMALS AND ANIMAL PRODUCTS
 
     CHAPTER III--FOOD SAFETY AND INSPECTION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF 
                               AGRICULTURE
 
PART 592_VOLUNTARY INSPECTION OF EGG PRODUCTS--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 592.90  Authority and duties of inspection program personnel
performing service.

    (a) Inspection program personnel are authorized:
    (1) To make such observations and inspections as they deem necessary 
to enable them to certify that products have been prepared, processed, 
stored, and otherwise handled in conformity with the regulations in this 
part;

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    (2) To supervise the marking of packages containing products that 
are eligible to be identified with official identification;
    (3) To retain in their custody, or under their supervision, labels 
with official identification, marking devices, samples, certificates, 
seals, and reports of inspection program personnel;
    (4) To deface or remove, or cause to be defaced or removed under 
their personal supervision, any official identification from any package 
containing products whenever the program employee determines that such 
products were not processed in accordance with the regulations in this 
part or are not fit for human food;
    (5) To issue a certificate upon request on any product processed in 
the official plant; and
    (6) To use retention tags or other devices and methods as may be 
approved by the Administrator for the identification and control of 
products that are not in compliance with the regulations in this part or 
are held for further examination, and any equipment, utensils, rooms or 
compartments that are found to be unclean or otherwise in violation of 
any of the regulations in this part. No product, equipment, utensil, 
room, or compartment shall be released for use until it has been made 
acceptable. Such identification shall not be removed by anyone other 
than inspection program personnel.
    (b) Inspection program personnel shall prepare such reports and 
records as may be prescribed by the Administrator.