Utah Administrative Code
Topic - Agriculture and Food
Title R70 - Regulatory Services
Rule R70-410 - Grading and Inspection of Shell Eggs Producers
Section R70-410-2 - Definitions

(1) "Best by date" means a date that shows when a product will be of the best flavor or quality. It is not a purchase or safety date.

(2) "Check" means an individual egg with a broken shell or a crack in the shell, but its shell membranes are intact and its contents do not leak.

(3) "Department" or "UDAF" means the Utah Department of Agriculture and Food.

(4) "Dirty" means an individual egg that has an unbroken shell with adhering dirt or foreign material, prominent stains, or moderate stains covering more than 1/32 of the shell surface if localized, or one-sixteenth of the shell surface if scattered.

(5) "FD and C color" means the color additives approved for use in human food in 21 CFR Parts 73 and 74.

(6) "Leaker" means an individual egg that has a crack or breaks in the shell and shell membranes to the extent that the egg contents are exuding or free to exude through the shell.

(7) "Loss" means an egg that is inedible, cooked, frozen, contaminated, sour, musty, or an egg that contains a large blood spot, large meat spot, bloody white, green white, rot, stuck yolk, blood ring, embryo chick at or beyond the blood ring state, free yolk in the white, or other foreign material.

(8) "Plant" means any building, machinery, apparatus, or fixture, used for the storing, grading, or packing of shell eggs.

(9) "Potable water" means water that has been approved by the Utah Department of Health and Human Services or any agency or laboratory acceptable to the department as safe for drinking and food processing.

(10) "Premises" means a tract of land with a building or part of a building with its grounds or appurtenances.

(11) "Producer" means a person who owns, operates, or both a poultry house containing laying hens that produce shell eggs for human consumption.

(12) "Product" or "products" means shell eggs of domesticated chicken.

(13) "Pull date" means a date placed on the egg container label after which the eggs should not be sold.

(14) "Restricted" means eggs classified as checks, dirties, incubator rejects, inedibles, leakers, or loss.

(15) "Shell eggs" means intact shell eggs of domesticated chickens.

(16) "Small producer" means a producer of shell eggs:

(17) "Ultimate consumer" means the same as the term defined in Subsection 4-4-103(11).