R70-410-2. Handling and Disposition of Restricted Eggs

  (1) Restricted eggs shall be disposed of by one of the following methods at point and time of segregation:

  (a) Checks and dirties must be shipped to an official egg breaking plant for further processing to egg products. Dirties may be shipped to a shell egg plant for cleaning. Checks and dirties may not be sold to restaurants, bakeries and food manufacturers, not to consumers, unless such sales are specifically exempted by Section 15 of the Federal Egg Products Inspection Act and not prohibited by State Law.

  (b) Leakers, loss and inedible eggs must be destroyed for human food purposes at the grading station or point of segregation by one of the methods listed below:

  (i) Discarded and intermingled with refuse such as shells, papers, trash, etc.

  (ii) Processed into an industrial product or animal food at the grading station.

  (iii) Denatured or de-characterized with an approved denaturant. (Such product shipped under government supervision and received under government supervision at a plant making industrial products or animal food need not be denatured or de-characterized prior to shipment.)

  (iv) Leakers, loss and inedible eggs may be shipped in shell form provided they are properly labeled and denatured by adding FD and C color to the shell or by applying a substance that will penetrate the shell and de-characterize the egg meat.

  (c) Incubator rejects (eggs which have been subjected to incubation) may not be moved in shell form and must be crushed and denatured or de-characterized at point and time of removal from incubation.

  (d) Blood type loss which has not diffused into the albumen may be moved to an official egg products plant in shell form without adding FD and C color to the shell provided they are properly labeled and moved directly to the egg products plant.

  (e) Containers used for eggs not intended for human consumption must be labeled with the word "inedible" on the outside of the container.

  (f) Other methods of disposition may be used only when approved by the Commissioner.