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260.540 Definitions for KRS 260.540 to 260.650.
As used in KRS 260.540 to 260.650, unless the context otherwise requires:
(1) "Ambient temperature" means the atmospheric temperature surrounding or
encircling shell eggs;
(2) "Board" means the Egg Marketing Board;
(3) "Candle" means to determine the interior quality of a shell egg based on the use of a
candling light as defined in the USDA Handbook 75(7 CFR Part 56);
(4) "Candled and graded" means candled and graded under state and federal standards
and regulations;
(5) "Case" means a container of thirty (30) dozen shell eggs as used in commercial
practice in the United States. The term "half-case" shall mean a container of fifteen
(15) dozen eggs. Case also means any other quantity packaging which is considered
a wholesale pack;
(6) "Check" means an egg that has a broken shell or a crack in the shell, but whose
membranes are intact and whose contents are not leaking;
(7) "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Agriculture;
(8) "Consumer" means all persons purchasing eggs for consumption and not resale;
(9) "Department" means the Department of Agriculture;
(10) "Dealer" means a person, organization, or cooperative engaged in the business of
buying eggs from producers or other persons, either on his own account or as an
agent, and selling or transferring eggs by the case or other quantity to a wholesaler,
processor, retailer, specialty egg processor, or other persons or consumers;
(11) "Dirty egg" means an egg that has a shell that is unbroken and has adhering dirt or
foreign material, or prominent stains covering more than one-fourth (1/4) of the
shell surface;
(12) "Distributor" means any person who sells, offers, or otherwise exposes shell eggs or
egg products to a wholesaler, retailer, or food service facility. "Distributor" also
means any person or producer who distributes shell eggs or egg products to his or
her own retail outlet, store, or food service facility;
(13) "Egg product" means processed and convenience forms of eggs for home and
commercial use, including hard-cooked, or specialty egg products and pasteurized
liquid, pasteurized frozen, or pasteurized dried egg products;
(14) "FDA" means the Federal Food and Drug Administration;
(15) "Handler" means a dealer, packer, processor, wholesaler, distributor, or retailer;
(16) "Inedible" means an egg that is unfit for human food in whole or in part, addled or
moldy, containing black rot, white rot, blood ring, adherent yolks, or bloody whites,
incubated beyond the blood ring stage, or consisting to any extent of filthy
decomposed substance. This also includes any eggs unfit for human consumption
due to causes other than those listed in this subsection;
(17) "Leaker" means an egg that has a crack or break in the shell and shell membranes to
the extent that the egg contents are exposed or are exuding or free to exude through
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the shell;
"Loss" means an egg that is unfit for human food because it is smashed or broken so
that its contents are leaking; or overheated, frozen, or contaminated; or an incubator
reject; or contains a bloody white, large meat spots, a large quantity of blood, or
other foreign material;
"Lot" means any given quantity of two (2) or more eggs of a named grade, billed on
an invoice or inspected by the department;
"Lot consolidation" means the removal of damaged eggs from consumer labeled
cartons and replacement of the damaged eggs with eggs of the same grade, size,
sell-by date, brand, lot, and source;
"Packer" means any person who grades, sizes, candles, and packs eggs for purposes
of sale;
"Person" means any individual, firm, partnership, corporation, company,
association, or any other type of business entity that traffics in, handles, or sells
eggs, and shall include any trustee, receiver, or similar representative;
"Producer" means any person who exercises control over the production of eggs and
disposes of eggs from the output of his or her personally owned flock;
"Registered lot consolidator" means a person who has successfully completed a
training course in lot consolidation approved by the department and who is
registered with the department;
"Repacking" means changing the identity of a lot of shell eggs by removing them
from the original container labeled by a packer and placing them into another
container not labeled by the packer at the point of origin with the same grade, size,
sell-by date, lot number, source, and brand;
"Retailer" means any person selling or offering eggs for sale to consumers in this
state;
"Sell" means to offer for sale, expose for sale, have in possession for sale,
exchange, barter, or trade;
"Shell eggs" means the product of the domesticated hen and any other egg from the
avian species offered for human consumption in its shell form;
"Specialty egg processor" means a person who operates a plant for the purpose of
breaking eggs for freezing or drying or commercial food manufacturing, and
includes a person distributing his or her products from out-of-state. A specialty egg
processor may also be known as a breaker or breaking plant;
(a) "Specialty egg products" means egg specialties processed for the food service
industry including: wet-pack and dry-pack prepeeled hard-cooked eggs, either
whole, wedged, sliced, chopped, or pickled; long rolls of hard-cooked eggs;
frozen omelets; egg patties; quiche; quiche mix; frozen French toast; frozen
scrambled egg mix in boilable pouches; frozen fried eggs; frozen precooked
scrambled eggs; freeze-dried scrambled eggs; ultra-pasteurized liquid eggs;
free-flowing frozen egg pellets; and specially coated shelf-stable hard-cooked
eggs.
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"Specialty egg products" does not include eggs that are combined with other
products in a convenience pack such as a meal, if the total package weight
cannot be fairly divided between all items in the package allowing the egg
product to have a separate calculated weight;
"Stop order" means an order issued by an inspector or other authorized agent of the
department removing the shell egg or egg products from sale until a release or
change of order has been issued by an inspector or authorized agent of the
department;
"Ungraded and candled" means the general run of edible eggs as they come from the
producer, not sized or graded, but candled;
"USDA" means the United States Department of Agriculture;
"Wholesaler" means a handler who is engaged in the business of buying eggs from
producers or other persons on the handler's own account and selling or transferring
eggs to other dealers, wholesalers, processors, or retailers, or through other
distribution channels; and
"Withdraw from sale order" means an order issued by an inspector or other
authorized agent of the department, permanently removing shell eggs or egg
products from sale or distribution.
Effective: March 5, 2014
History: Amended 2014 Ky. Acts ch. 4, sec. 1, effective March 5, 2014. -- Amended
2008 Ky. Acts ch. 66, sec. 1, effective July 15, 2008. -- Amended 2005 Ky. Acts ch.
40, sec. 1, effective June 20, 2005. -- Amended 1998 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1,
effective July 15, 1998. -- Created 1956 Ky. Acts ch. 121, sec. 1, effective January 1,
1957.
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