§1054 Annual report to Congressional committees

Summary

Each year, by March 1 (after December 29, 1970), the Secretary must send a detailed written report to the House Committee on Agriculture and the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. The report explains how eggs and egg products are made, stored, handled, and distributed, how inspections and State inspection programs are working, and any recommended changes in the law. The report must also review how section 1046 (about imports) was carried out during the past calendar year. It must include a certificate that foreign plants met the rules; the names and places of plants allowed to export to the U.S.; how many USDA inspectors and how often they inspected those plants; how many inspectors licensed by each exporting country checked imports and how effective those checks were; the total imports from each country with major categories and any rejections; and recommendations for improving the import program.