Egg Products Act Will Make Shell Damage More Important
Editor’s Note: The following
informative report on the Egg
Products Inspection Act and
how it applies to poultry opera
tions was released through the
State Extension service and U.S.
Department of Agriculture:
The Egg Products Inspection
Act is an act of Congress of De
cember 1970 which provides for
the mandatory continuous in
spection of plants processing egg
products, whether shipping in
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terstate, intrastate, or in
foreign commerce; the disposi
tion of restricted eggs, and uni
form size and quality grades
among states.
The first major part of the
act deals with egg products. Egg
breaking and drying plants
processing liquid, frozen, or
dried egg products will be re
quired to operate under con
tinuous USDA inspection. This
means that all facilities, equip-
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ment, and sanitary practices in
egg products plants will have
to be approved and operations
will have to be under the super
vision of a federal or state in
spector licensed by USDA at all
times unless specifically exempt
ed.
Included is required pasteur
ization of egg products. This
part of the act becomes effec
tive July 1, 1971 and applies to
all sizes of operations.
To qualify for inspection,
processing plants must comply
with all raw materials, sanita
tion. operation, equipment, and
facility requirements, which are
spelled out in detail in the regu
lations of the act.
An official plant is any plant
at which continuous inspection
of the processing of egg pro
ducts is maintained by the
USDA. Costs of inspection at
egg products plants will be paid
by the United States Govern
ment, except that official plants
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air freshener and window clean-
Karen McLaughlin, Lititz
RD2, gave a demonstration
about planting and transplanting
outdoor flowers.
Dennis Cinder, Manheim
RD2, gave a demonstration on
Handyman work.
For entertainment, slides of
California were shown by Greg
Shell, Elm. Refreshments were
served and the meeting ended.
News Reporter,
Debbie Patschorke
Penn Manor Thimbles
The Penn Manor Clashing
Thimbles held its second meet
ing at 8:30 a.m. June 23.
The meeting was called to
order and conducted by Karen
Breneman, vice president, with
Jeanette Bauman, assistant sec
retary, taking the new mem
bers’ names.
Linda Sickman and Lon Lea-
for other jobs and assures uniform results.
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you the best combination of crop protection
cfrgmfoals and liquid fertilizers.
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will be billed for overtime and
holiday inspection work beyond
the approved schedule of 40
hours per week.
The act also regulates the dis
position of restricted eggs as
follows: (1) incubator rejects,
leakers, inedibles and loss eggs
must be destroyed, denatured or
properly identified as required
in the regulations to prevent
their use as human food (no
exemptions); and (2) checked
and dirty eggs are to be shipped
to an official egg products plant
where proper segregation and
disposition can he made. The
regulations governing the dis
pbsltion of restricted eggs go
into effect July 1, 1972, a year
later than the egg products por
tion of the act, thus giving pro
ducers and marketers a chance
to change marketing practices if
necessary.
Egg handlers will he required
to keep records of all transac
tions and will be subject to
man led the club in song and
the meeting was adjourned.
The next meeting will be held
in the Penn Manor Middle
School at 8:30 a.m. June 30.
News Reporter,
Linda Ann Leaman
Koolcie Kooks Meet
The first meeting of the
Kookie Kooks was held at the
Penn Manor Middle School on
Wednesday, June 23.
The following new officers
were elected: President, Judy
Thomas; Vice President, Linda
Leaman; Secretary, Debbie
White; Game Leaders, Lori Leah
man and Norlan Moyer; News
Reporter, Jeannette Bauman,
and Song Leaders, Linda Sick
man and Susan Eckenrode.
The next meeting will be held
June 30, at the same place from
, 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.p.
News Reporter
Jeannette Bauman
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 3,1971
periodic inspection. Shell egg
handlers who pack for consum
ers, bakeries, institutions, and
food manufacturers will be in
spected at least once each calen
dar quarter to determine the dis
position of their restricted eggs.
Imported shell eggs, after entry,
will be treated exactly the same
as domestic eggs.
The act provides foi the fol
lowing exemptions; (1) the pro
cessing and sale of eggs or egg
products by any producer from
his own flock directly to a house
hold consumer; (2) the sale of
eggs by a producer with a ilock
of 3,000 or less "hens; (3) the
sale, transport, processing, or
use of eggs which meet U.S.
consumer grades, (4) the sale of
cracked eggs directly to house
hold consumers by a packing
plant on its own premises.
Nest run or ungraded eggs can
be sold to shell egg grading or
packing plants or to official egg
products plants. They cannot be
sold to restaurants, retail stores,
and food manufacturing plants
unless they contain no more
checks, leakers, duties, and loss
than permitted in the U.S. con
sumer Grade B pack.
Based on regulations publish
ed in the Federal Register in
March 1971, the maximum
amount of restricted eggs allow
ed in the US. consumer Grade
B pack - includes 10 per cent
checks and 0.5 per cent dirties
and leakers. Incubator rejects,
inedibles, and loss eggs are not
allowed.
Since the sale of cracked and
dirty eggs will be restricted
after July 1,1972, in some areas
of Pennsylvania it may be dif
ficult to find markets for crack
ed eggs. Thus, it is imperative
that producers re-evaluate their
egg handling procedmes to de
termine if there are ways to re
duce the number of damaged
eggs Leakers will be a total
loss.
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