§1033 Definitions

Summary

Lists simple meanings for words used in the chapter about eggs and egg products. It tells what counts as unsafe or poor-quality eggs and explains terms used for labels, inspections, people, places, and processes. Adulterated — an egg or egg product that is unsafe, contaminated, spoiled, prepared or stored in filthy conditions, incubated, improperly irradiated, has forbidden or unsafe additives, has a poisonous container, or has had value removed, hidden damage, or dishonest additions; Capable of use as human food — any egg or egg product unless it is purposely marked to stop people from eating it under rules the Secretary sets; Commerce — means interstate, foreign, or intrastate commerce. Container or package — any box, can, tin, plastic, wrapper, or cover; Immediate container — the consumer package or the container holding non-consumer-packed egg products; Shipping container — a container used to pack an immediate container. Egg handler — a person or business that buys, sells, processes, or uses eggs for food. Egg product — dried, frozen, or liquid eggs, with or without added ingredients, except items with only small amounts of egg or items the Secretary may exempt. Egg — the shell egg of a domestic chicken, turkey, duck, goose, or guinea. Check — cracked shell but membranes intact and contents not leaking; Clean and sound shell egg — shell clean and not cracked; Dirty egg — unbroken but with dirt on shell; Incubator reject — egg removed from incubation as infertile or un-hatchable; Inedible — eggs with rots, sourness, mold, mustiness, green whites, stuck yolks, blood rings, embryos beyond the blood ring stage, or similar defects; Leaker — shell and membranes broken so contents can leak; Loss — eggs smashed, overheated, frozen, contaminated, incubator rejects, or with large blood/meat/foreign material making them unfit; Restricted egg — any check, dirty egg, incubator reject, inedible, leaker, or loss. Fair Packaging and Labeling Act — the act approved November 3, 1966. Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act — the act approved June 25, 1938. Inspection — methods the Secretary decides are needed to carry out the chapter. Inspector — a federal employee or an authorized state/local employee who inspects under agreements with the Secretary. Misbranded — egg products not labeled or packaged as the Secretary requires under section 1036. Official certificate, official device, official inspection legend, official mark — the forms, tools, and symbols the Secretary authorizes to show official inspection or status. Official plant — a plant where the Department of Agriculture maintains inspection. Official standards — egg quality, grades, and weight classes under the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 (60 Stat. 1087; 7 U.S.C. 1621 et seq.). Pasteurize — treat every part of the egg product with heat or other approved methods to destroy harmful microbes. Person — any individual, partnership, corporation, association, or other business unit. Pesticide chemical, food additive, color additive, raw agricultural commodity — have the same meanings as in the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. Plant — any place where egg products are processed. Processing — making egg products, such as breaking, filtering, mixing, blending, pasteurizing, stabilizing, cooling, freezing, drying, or packaging. Secretary — the Secretary of Agriculture or the Secretary’s delegate. State — any State, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, or the District of Columbia. United States — means the States.