Utah Admin. Code R70-410-2 - Definitions
(1) "Best by date" means a date that shows
when a product will be of the best flavor or quality. It is not a purchase or
safety date.
(2) "Check" means an
individual egg with a broken shell or a crack in the shell, but its shell
membranes are intact and its contents do not leak.
(3) "Department" or "UDAF" means the Utah
Department of Agriculture and Food.
(4) "Dirty" means an individual egg that has
an unbroken shell with adhering dirt or foreign material, prominent stains, or
moderate stains covering more than 1/32 of the shell surface if localized, or
one-sixteenth of the shell surface if scattered.
(5) "FD and C color" means the color
additives approved for use in human food in 21 CFR Parts 73 and 74.
(6) "Leaker" means an individual egg that has
a crack or breaks in the shell and shell membranes to the extent that the egg
contents are exuding or free to exude through the shell.
(7) "Loss" means an egg that is inedible,
cooked, frozen, contaminated, sour, musty, or an egg that contains a large
blood spot, large meat spot, bloody white, green white, rot, stuck yolk, blood
ring, embryo chick at or beyond the blood ring state, free yolk in the white,
or other foreign material.
(8)
"Plant" means any building, machinery, apparatus, or fixture, used for the
storing, grading, or packing of shell eggs.
(9) "Potable water" means water that has been
approved by the Utah Department of Health and Human Services or any agency or
laboratory acceptable to the department as safe for drinking and food
processing.
(10) "Premises" means a
tract of land with a building or part of a building with its grounds or
appurtenances.
(11) "Producer"
means a person who owns, operates, or both a poultry house containing laying
hens that produce shell eggs for human consumption.
(12) "Product" or "products" means shell eggs
of domesticated chicken.
(13) "Pull
date" means a date placed on the egg container label after which the eggs
should not be sold.
(14)
"Restricted" means eggs classified as checks, dirties, incubator rejects,
inedibles, leakers, or loss.
(15)
"Shell eggs" means intact shell eggs of domesticated chickens.
(16) "Small producer" means a producer of
shell eggs:
(a) that has less than 3,000
layers;
(b) that sells only to an
ultimate consumer; and
(c) who is
exempt from 21 CFR, Chapter 1, Part 118, Production, Storage, and Transpiration
of Shell Eggs.
(17)
"Ultimate consumer" means the same as the term defined in Subsection
4-4-103(11).
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