General operating procedures.

CFR · 2024-01-01 · US · Title 9

(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” (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)(1) Egg products must be processed to meet the standard set out in § 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 o

official document · source cfr-2024 · id 9:§ 590.504