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Title 21 — Food and DrugsRelease 119-73not60

§1040 Recordkeeping Requirements; Persons Required to Maintain Records; Scope of Disclosure; Access to Records

Title 21 › Chapter 15— EGG PRODUCTS INSPECTION › § 1040

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

People and businesses that transport, ship, receive, hold, or handle eggs or egg products in commerce must keep records about when and how they got, moved, sold, or disposed of those eggs. The Secretary of Agriculture or the Secretary of Health and Human Services decides what records are needed, the format, and how long to keep them. If an authorized representative of either Secretary asks, these businesses must allow them to see and copy the records at reasonable times.

Full Legal Text

Title 21, §1040

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For the purpose of enforcing the provisions of this chapter and the regulations promulgated thereunder, all persons engaged in the business of transporting, shipping, or receiving any eggs or egg products in commerce or holding such articles so received, and all egg handlers, shall maintain such records showing, for such time and in such form and manner, as the Secretary of Agriculture or the Secretary of Health and Human Services may prescribe, to the extent that they are concerned therewith, the receipt, delivery, sale, movement, and disposition of all eggs and egg products handled by them, and shall, upon the request of a duly authorized representative of either of said Secretaries, permit him at reasonable times to have access to and to copy all such records.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

This chapter, referred to in text, was in the original “this Act”, meaning Pub. L. 91–597, Dec. 29, 1970, 84 Stat. 1620, which is classified principally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

Short Title

note set out under section 1031 of this title and Tables.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Change of Name

“Secretary of Health and Human Services” substituted in text for “Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare” pursuant to section 509(b) of Pub. L. 96–88, which is classified to section 3508(b) of Title 20, Education.

Effective Date

For

Effective Date

of this section, see section 29 of Pub. L. 91–597, set out as a note under section 1031 of this title.

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Citation

21 U.S.C. § 1040

Title 21 — Food and Drugs

Last Updated

Apr 5, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60