Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 7 - AGRICULTURE AND ANIMALS › Part V - Advertising, Marketing and Processing › Chapter 9 - Market Commission-Poultry and Eggs › Subchapter B - Egg Grading and Marketing › Section V-915 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 6, June 20, 2024
A. For the purpose
				  of these regulations the following words, terms and phrases shall be construed
				  to mean:
Ambient Temperature
-the atmospheric
					 temperature surrounding or encircling shell eggs.
Boiled Eggs
-eggs that are hard or soft
					 boiled, that are pickled, frozen, or by any other means preserved and sold
					 commercially.
Broker
-a person who never assumes
					 ownership or possession of eggs, nor changes the grade or pack of eggs, but is
					 engaged in the business of acting as agent, for a fee or commission, in the
					 sale or transfer of eggs between producers, or dealer-wholesalers as sellers
					 and dealer-wholesalers, processors, or retailers as buyers.
Candling
-the practice of examining the
					 interior of an egg by use of transmitted light for determining whether it is
					 inedible, and for determining quality in grading edible eggs.
Case
-30 dozen per case of shell
					 eggs.
Commissioner
-the Commissioner of
					 Agriculture and Forestry of the State of Louisiana.
Consumer
-any person using eggs for food,
					 and shall include restaurants, hotels, cafeterias, hospitals, state
					 institutions, schools, other places not specifically named such as bakeries,
					 day care centers, nursing homes, etc. or any other establishment serving food
					 to be consumed or produced on the premises, but shall not include the Armed
					 Forces or any other federal agency or institution.
Dealer-Wholesaler
-any person engaged in
					 the business of buying eggs from producers or other persons on his own account
					 and selling or transferring eggs to other dealer-wholesalers, processors,
					 retailers, or other persons and consumers. A
dealer-wholesaler
further means a person engaged in producing eggs from his own flock and
					 disposing of any portion of the production on a graded basis.
Denatured
-rendering unfit for human
					 consumption by treatment or the addition of a foreign substance such as lamp
					 black, methylene dye, powdered charcoal or kerosene, in addition to crushing of
					 the egg shells.
Department
-the Louisiana Department of
					 Agriculture and Forestry.
Egg Producer
-any person, farm,
					 corporation, or other entity that produces eggs.
Egg Products
-any other products made from
					 whole eggs, egg whites, egg yolks or any combination thereof that is not
					 included in the above definitions.
Egg Products Inspection Act
- Public Law
					 91-597, Egg Products Inspection Act, dated 12/29/70.
Eggs
-the product of the domesticated
					 chicken offered for sale for human consumption.
Federal Standards
-the quality and weight
					 requirements for grades as defined in the United States Standards for Shell
					 Eggs that are now or may hereafter be established by the United States
					 Department of Agriculture.
Frozen Egg Products
-frozen whole eggs,
					 frozen whites, or frozen yolks or any combination thereof to which have been
					 added salt, sugar, or other food or noninjurious food additive.
Frozen Eggs, Frozen Egg Yolks, or Frozen Mixed
					 Eggs
-the food prepared by freezing liquid eggs.
Inedible and Unfit for Human
					 Consumption
-for eggs, this shall mean eggs described as 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), leakers, and any
					 eggs that are adulterated as such term is defined pursuant to the Food, Drug
					 and Cosmetic Act.
Offered for Sale
-eggs that are housed
					 within any wholesale or retail place of business, or on or alongside of any
					 loading or unloading platform in the state of Louisiana, or within a truck or
					 other carrier that has come to rest within the state of Louisiana.
Packer
-any person who grades, sizes,
					 candles, and packs eggs for the purpose of resale.
Person
-any individual, partnership,
					 association, business trust, corporation or any organized group of persons,
					 whether incorporated or not.
Possession
-the fact of possession by any
					 person engaged in the sale of a commodity is prima facie evidence that such
					 commodity is for sale.
Processor
-a person who operates a plant
					 for the purpose of breaking or boiling eggs for freezing, drying, or commercial
					 food manufacturing.
Producer
-any person engaged in the
					 business of producing eggs in Louisiana, either as an owner or as an officer or
					 stockholder of a business engaged in producing eggs in Louisiana, or any person
					 deriving a profit from such business or a person who further processes boiled,
					 frozen or other egg products derived from fresh shell eggs.
Retailer
-any person who sells eggs to a
					 consumer.
Sell
-to "offer for sale," "expose for
					 sale," "have in possession for sale," "exchange," "barter," or "trade."
Standard
-the quality specifications for a
					 single egg, and a group of standards is combined to make a grade.
U.S.D.A.
-the United States Department of
					 Agriculture.
AUTHORITY NOTE:
					 Adopted in accordance with
					 R.S.
					 3:405.