§1054 Annual Report to Congressional Committees

Summary

By March 1 each year after December 29, 1970, the Secretary must send a full written report to the House Committee on Agriculture and the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. The report must explain how eggs and egg products are processed, stored, handled, and distributed, how related establishments are inspected, how well the inspection system works (including State inspection programs), and any suggested changes to the law. The report must also review how the import rules under section 1046 were carried out during the previous calendar year. That review must say whether foreign plants exporting to the United States met the chapter’s rules, name and locate the plants allowed to export, give the number of Department of Agriculture inspectors who checked those plants and how often, give the number of inspectors licensed by each exporting country who checked imports and facilities and how often and how well they inspected, list the total volume of eggs and egg products imported from each country with a breakdown by major category, report rejections of plants or products for failing standards, and offer recommendations for law changes.