2018 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 25 - Food
Article 6 - Egg Grading
Section 25-6-3 - Purpose of the act.

Universal Citation: NM Stat § 25-6-3 (2018)
25-6-3. Purpose of the act.

The purpose of the Egg Grading Act is to assure that no person, firm or corporation shall sell or have in his possession with the intent to sell, offer or expose for sale, or traffic in, any egg unfit for human food, unless the same is broken in shell and then denatured so that it cannot be used for human food, if it is or has:

A. addled or white rot;

B. moldy;

C. black rot;

D. blood ring;

E. stuck yolk;

F. sour;

G. green whites;

H. musty; or

I. incubator reject eggs.

History: 1953 Comp., § 54-2-12, enacted by Laws 1963, ch. 138, § 3; 1973, ch. 116, § 2.

ANNOTATIONS

Am. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — 35 Am. Jur. 2d Food § 38.

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