[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 242 (Wednesday, December 16, 2020)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 81340-81341]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-26798]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Food Safety and Inspection Service

9 CFR Parts 416, 417, 500, 590, and 591

[Docket No. FSIS-2005-0015]
RIN 0583-AC58


Egg Products Inspection Regulations

AGENCY: Food Safety and Inspection Service, USDA.

ACTION: Final rule; correction.

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SUMMARY: Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is correcting a 
final rule that published on October 29, 2020. The final rule requires 
official plants that process egg products (herein also referred to as 
``egg products plants'' or ``plants'') to develop and implement Hazard 
Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) Systems and Sanitation 
Standard Operating Procedures (Sanitation SOPs) and to meet other 
sanitation requirements consistent with FSIS's meat and poultry 
regulations.

DATES: This correction is effective December 28, 2020. The DATES, 
certain amendatory instructions, and regulatory text in FR Doc 2020-
20151 (85 FR 68640), published on October 29, 2020 are corrected.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Victoria Levine, Program Analyst, 
Office of Policy and Program Development by telephone at (202) 690-
3184.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This document corrects several technical 
errors with certain amendments and effective dates in FR Doc 2020-20151 
(85 FR 68640), published on October 29, 2020. The DATES, certain 
amendatory instructions, and regulatory text are corrected.
    In FR Doc 2020-20151 (85 FR 68640), published on Thursday, October 
29, 2020, the following corrections are made:

DATES:
    1. On page 68640, first column, the DATES section is corrected to 
read as follows:
    This rule is effective December 28, 2020, except for: Amendatory 
instructions 30 (Sec.  590.146), 32 (Sec.  590.149), 54 (Sec. Sec.  
590.500 and 590.502), 55a (Sec.  590.504(f) through, (n), (p), and 
(q)), 56-65 (Sec. Sec.  590.506 through 590.560), and 66a (Sec.  
590.570(a)), which are effective October 29, 2021; and amendatory 
instructions 4 (Sec.  417.7), 55b (Sec.  590.504(d) and (o)), 66b 
(Sec.  590.570), and 67 (Sec.  590.575), which are effective October 
31, 2022.
    Effective December 28, 2020, Sec. Sec.  591.1(a) and 591.2(b) are 
stayed

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through October 29, 2021 and Sec. Sec.  .590.149(b) and (c), 
590.580(b)(1), 591.1(b), and 591.2(a) and (c) are stayed through 
October 31, 2022.


Sec.  590.504  [Corrected]

    2. On page 68679, second column, amendatory instruction 55 and 
Sec.  590.504 are corrected, and amendatory instructions 55a and 55b 
are added, to read as follows:
    55. Amend Sec.  590.504 by revising paragraphs (a) through (e) to 
read as follows:


Sec.  590.504   General operating procedures.

    (a) Operations involving the processing, storing, and handling of 
eggs, ingredients, and egg products must be done in a sanitary manner.
    (b)(1) Eggs and egg products are subject to inspection in each 
official plant processing egg products for commerce.
    (2) Any eggs and egg products not processed in accordance with the 
regulations in this part or part 591 or that are not otherwise fit for 
human food must be removed and segregated.
    (c)(1) All loss and inedible eggs or inedible egg products must be 
placed in a container clearly labeled ``inedible'' and containing a 
sufficient amount of denaturant or decharacterant, such as an FDA-
approved color additive, suspended in the product. Eggs must be crushed 
and the substance dispersed through the product in amounts sufficient 
to give the product a distinctive appearance or odor. Inedible product 
may be held in containers clearly labeled ``inedible'' which do not 
contain a denaturant as long as such inedible product is properly 
packaged, labeled and segregated, and inventory controls are 
maintained. Such inedible product must be denatured or decharacterized 
before being shipped from a facility.
    (2) Undenatured egg products or inedible egg products that are not 
decharacterized may be shipped from an official plant for industrial 
use or animal food, provided that it is properly packaged, labeled, and 
segregated, and inventory controls are maintained.
    (d) [Reserved]
    (e) Inspection program personnel may allow an official plant to 
move egg products that have been sampled and analyzed for Salmonella, 
or for any other reason, before receiving the test results, if they do 
not suspect noncompliance by the plant with any provisions of this 
part. The official plant must maintain control of the products 
represented by the sample pending the results.
* * * * *


Sec.  590.504   [Amended]

    55a. Effective October 29, 2021, amend Sec.  590.504 by removing 
and reserving paragraphs (f) through (n), and removing paragraphs (p) 
and (q).


Sec.  590.504   General operating procedures.

    55b. Effective October 31, 2022, amend Sec.  590.504 by adding 
paragraph (d) and removing paragraphs (f) through (o) to read as 
follows:
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    (d)(1) Egg products must be processed to meet the standard set out 
in Sec.  590.570.
    (2) Unpasteurized or microbial pathogen-positive egg products may 
be shipped from an official plant to another official plant only when 
they are to be pasteurized, heat treated, or treated using other 
methods of treatment sufficient to produce egg products that are edible 
without additional preparation to achieve food safety in the second 
official plant. Official plants must maintain control of shipments of 
unpasteurized or microbial pathogen-positive egg products shipped from 
one official plant to another official plant for pasteurization or 
treatment. Shipping plants must seal such shipments in cars or trucks 
and label them in accordance with Sec.  590.410(c). Containers of 
unpasteurized or microbial pathogen-positive egg product must be marked 
with the identification mark shown in Figure 2 of Sec.  590.415.
* * * * *


Sec.  590.570  [Corrected]

    3. On page 68680, second column, amendatory instruction 66 is 
corrected as instruction 66b, and new amendatory instructions 66 and 
66a are added, to read as follows:


Sec.  590.570   [Amended]

    66. Amend Sec.  590.570 by removing paragraph (c).


Sec.  590.570   [Amended]

    66a. Effective October 29, 2021, amend Sec.  590.570 by removing 
and reserving paragraph (a).
    66b. Effective October 31, 2022, revise Sec.  590.570 to read as 
follows:

    Done at Washington, DC.
Paul Kiecker,
Administrator.
[FR Doc. 2020-26798 Filed 12-15-20; 8:45 am]
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