Alaska Administrative Code › Title 11 - Natural Resources › Part 4 - Agriculture › Chapter 32 - Marketing and Grading › Article 2 - Shell Egg Regulations › 11 AAC 32.190 - Definitions

Current through May 31, 2024
Unless the context indicates otherwise, in secs. 100 - 190
					 of this chapter
(1) "authorized
				  inspector" shall include the director, his duly authorized representatives, or
				  any Government employed egg grading inspector;
(2) "candling" means the practice of
				  examining the interior of an egg by the use of transmitted light for
				  determining inedible eggs, and also for determining the condition of the shell,
				  air cell, white, and yolk in classifying eggs as to quality;
(3) "consumer" means any person who purchases
				  eggs for his or her own family use or consumption;
(4) "container" means any egg-shipping case
				  or carton or any other similar device used for the purpose of holding or
				  transporting eggs, or carton, box, bag, or any other similar device used for
				  the purpose of consumer packaging in which eggs are sold;
(5) "director" means the Director of
				  Agriculture of the State of Alaska;
(6) "distributor" means any person, firm, or
				  corporation offering for sale or distributing eggs in the state to a retailer,
				  cafe, restaurant, or any other establishment offering for sale to the public or
				  to an institutional user and shall include any person, firm, or corporation
				  distributing eggs to his or its own retail outlets or stores but shall not
				  include any person, firm, or corporation engaged only to haul or transport
				  eggs;
(7) "eggs" means the eggs of
				  a domesticated chicken hen, which eggs are in the shell;
(8) "general consumption," when applied to
				  eggs, means shell eggs destined for sale to the general public either through
				  stores, restaurants, mess halls, or in any other manner;
(9) "grade" applies to several or many eggs,
				  such as a dozen, case, or load;
(10) "inedible eggs." Eggs of the following
				  descriptions are classed as inedible: black rots, white rots, mixed rots
				  (addled eggs), sour eggs, eggs with green whites, eggs with stuck yolks, moldy
				  eggs, musty eggs, eggs showing blood rings, eggs containing embryo chicks (at
				  or beyond the blood-ring stage), and any eggs that are adulterated as such term
				  is defined pursuant to the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act;
(11) "loss" means an egg that is inedible,
				  smashed, or broken so that the contents are leaking, cooked, frozen,
				  contaminated, or containing bloody whites, large blood spots, large unsightly
				  meat spots, or other foreign material;
(12) "packer" means any person, firm, or
				  corporation that is engaged in grading, shell treating, or packing shell eggs
				  for sale to the public, direct or through distribution outlets of
				  stores;
(13) "producer" means a
				  person, firm, or corporation selling no eggs other than eggs produced by his or
				  its own flock;
(14) "retailer"
				  means any person, firm, or corporation selling or offering for sale eggs for
				  general consumption in the state;
(15) "shipper" means any person, firm, or
				  corporation shipping eggs into the state to a retailer, cafe, restaurant, or
				  any other establishment offering for sale eggs to the public or for
				  institutional use, and shall include any person, firm, or corporation
				  distributing eggs to his or its own retail outlets or stores and shall not
				  include any person, firm, or corporation engaged only to haul or transport
				  eggs;
(16) "sold" or "sale"
				  includes "offer for sale," "expose for sale," have in "possession for sale,"
				  "exchange," "barter" or "trade."
(17) "standard" refers to quality
				  specification for a single egg. A group of these standards is combined in
				  varying percentages of stated quality to make grades;
(18) "state" means the State of
				  Alaska;
(19) "time of shipment"
				  means immediately prior to the time eggs are accepted by the carrier
				  transporting them into the state.
Authority:
AS
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