Utah Administrative Code
Topic - Agriculture and Food
Title R70 - Regulatory Services
Rule R70-410 - Grading and Inspection of Shell Eggs Producers
Section R70-410-3 - Handling and Disposition of Restricted Eggs
Universal Citation: UT Admin Code R 70-410-3
Current through Bulletin 2024-06, March 15, 2024
(1) A small egg producer shall dispose of restricted eggs at the point and time of segregation.
(a) A small egg producer shall ensure that
checks and dirties are shipped to an official egg breaking plant for further
processing of egg products.
(i) Dirties may be
shipped to a shell eggplant for cleaning.
(ii) Checks and dirties may not be sold to
restaurants unless the Egg Products Inspection Act,
21 U.S.C. Sec.
1033, et seq. specifically exempts the sales
and is not prohibited by state law.
(b) A small egg producer shall ensure that
leakers, loss, and inedible eggs are destroyed for human food purposes at the
grading station or point of segregation by being:
(i) discarded and intermingled with refuse,
including shells, papers, or trash;
(ii) processed into an industrial product or
animal food at the grading station; or
(iii) denatured or de-characterized with an
approved denaturant.
(A) Leakers, loss, and
inedible eggs shipped under government supervision and received under
government supervision at a plant making industrial products or animal food
need not be denatured or de-characterized before shipment.
(B) Leakers, loss, and inedible eggs may be
shipped in shell form if they are properly labeled and denatured by adding FD
and C color to the shell or by applying a substance that will penetrate the
shell and de-characterize the egg meat.
(c) A small egg producer shall ensure that
incubator rejects, eggs that have been subjected to incubation, are not moved
in shell form and are crushed and denatured or de-characterized at the point
and time of removal from incubation.
(i) Blood
type loss that has not diffused into the albumen may be moved to an official
egg products plant in shell form without adding FD and C color to the shell
provided they are properly labeled and moved directly to the egg products
plant.
(2) A small egg producer shall ensure that containers used for eggs not intended for human consumption are labeled with the word "inedible" on the outside of the container.
(3) A small egg producer may use other methods of disposition when approved by the department.
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