California Code of Regulations › Title 3 - Food and Agriculture › Division 3 - Economics › Chapter 1 - Fruit and Vegetable Standardization › Subchapter 3 - Eggs › Section 1356.2 - Restricted Eggs

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
Eggs classed as "restricted eggs" are exempt from the size
					 and quality standards for consumer grade eggs except as provided in the
					 tolerances, if any, for undergrade eggs.
Restricted eggs may be sold directly to consumers only as
					 follows: by a shell egg producer from his own flock's production, at the site
					 of production or segregation, or at secondary locations operated by the
					 producer-packer for the primary purpose of shell egg retail sales; by a shell
					 egg packer at the grading station where grading or segregation occurred.
Special provisions described below place restrictions upon
					 the sale, processing, movement, distribution and uses of restricted
					 eggs.
Any product segregated into the several restricted egg
					 categories must bear legible and conspicuous labeling of its quality on the
					 carton, case, rack or pallet, as applicable. Name, address and zip code of the
					 packer is required for shipment, but need not appear on the label if it appears
					 elsewhere on the packing medium described above.
(a) Product for Human Consumption.
(1) Checks--direct sales to consumers.
				  Checked eggs may be sold directly to a consumer for exclusive use by his
				  household and nonpaying guests, in quantities not to exceed 30 dozen per sale.
				  Eggs labeled "checks" may not exceed 1 percent dirties, leakers and loss (due
				  to meat or blood spots), except that loss may not exceed 0.5 percent.
(2) Checks--sales to breaking plants. Checked
				  eggs may be sold in bulk and transported only for processing into an egg
				  product at a USDA inspected egg product plant. Labeling shall include the
				  statement "For Processing Only in an Official USDA Egg Product Plant." For this
				  purpose a tolerance of 5 percent leakers and 1 percent other loss or dirties is
				  permitted.
(3) Dirties--direct
				  sales to consumers. Dirty eggs may be sold directly to a consumer for exclusive
				  use by his household and nonpaying guests, in quantities not to exceed 30 dozen
				  per sale. Eggs labeled "dirty" may not exceed 10 percent checks and 1 percent
				  leakers and loss (due to meat or blood spots), except that loss may not exceed
				  0.5 percent.
(4) Dirties--sales to
				  breaking plants. Dirty eggs may be sold in bulk and transported only for
				  processing into an egg product at a USDA inspected egg product plant. Labeling
				  shall include the statement "For Processing Only in an Official USDA Egg
				  Product Plant." Eggs so labeled may not exceed 10 percent checks or 1 percent
				  loss.
(5) Dirties--transported for
				  cleaning. Dirty eggs may be transported to another facility and location for
				  the purpose of cleaning.
(6) Checks
				  and Dirties--direct sales to consumers. Checked and dirty eggs may be sold
				  directly to a consumer for exclusive use by his household and nonpaying guests,
				  in quantities not to exceed 30 dozen per sale. Eggs labeled "checks and
				  dirties" may not exceed 1 percent leakers and loss (due to meat or blood
				  spots), except that loss may not exceed 0.5 percent.
(7) Checks and Dirties--sales to breaking
				  plants. Checked and dirty eggs may be sold in bulk and transported only for
				  processing into an egg product at a USDA inspected egg product plant. Labeling
				  shall include the statement "For Processing Only in an Official USDA Egg
				  Products Plant." For this purpose a tolerance of 5 percent leakers and 1
				  percent other loss is permitted.
(8) Bloods--sales to breaking plants. Eggs
				  containing large blood or meat spots with only slight diffusion, if any, into
				  the egg white, and when labeled "Spots" or "Light Bloods," may be sold and
				  transported without denaturation to a USDA inspected egg product plant for
				  processing as an egg product. Labeling must include the statement "For
				  Processing Only in an Official USDA Egg Products Plant." No other type loss is
				  permitted for this product.