Title 21 — Food and Drugs
Chapter 15 — Egg Products Inspection
§ 1040. Recordkeeping requirements; persons required to maintain records; scope of disclosure; access to records
Statutory text
For the purpose of enforcing the provisions of this chapter and the regulations promulgated thereunder, all persons engaged in the business of transporting, shipping, or receiving any eggs or egg products in commerce or holding such articles so received, and all egg handlers, shall maintain such records showing, for such time and in such form and manner, as the Secretary of Agriculture or the Secretary of Health and Human Services may prescribe, to the extent that they are concerned therewith, the receipt, delivery, sale, movement, and disposition of all eggs and egg products handled by them, and shall, upon the request of a duly authorized representative of either of said Secretaries, permit him at reasonable times to have access to and to copy all such records.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Egg Products Inspection Act
Pub. L. 91–597 § 11 · 84 Stat. 1620
Enacted · 21 U.S.C. § 1040
Pub. L. 91–597, § 11, Dec. 29, 1970, 84 Stat. 1627
Source evidence
Code source credit
Pub. L. 91–597, § 11, Dec. 29, 1970, 84 Stat. 1627Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 11. record and related requirements for processors of eggs and egg products and related industries For the purpose of enforcing the provisions of this Act and the regulations promulgated thereunder, all persons engaged in the business of transporting, shipping, or receiving any eggs or egg products in commerce or holding such articles so received, and all egg handlers, shall maintain such records showing, for such time and in such form and manner, as the Secretary of Agriculture or the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare may prescribe, to the extent that they are concerned therewith, the receipt, delivery, sale, movement, and disposition of all eggs and egg products handled by them, and shall, upon the request of a duly authorized representative of either of said Secretaries, permit him at reasonable times to have access to and to copy all such records.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
References in Text
This chapter, referred to in text, was in the original “this Act”, meaning Pub. L. 91–597, , 84 Stat. 1620, which is classified principally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 1031 of this title and Tables.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Change of Name
“Secretary of Health and Human Services” substituted in text for “Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare” pursuant to section 509(b) of Pub. L. 96–88, which is classified to section 3508(b) of Title 20, Education.
Effective Date
For effective date of this section, see section 29 of Pub. L. 91–597, set out as a note under section 1031 of this title.
Credits
1970–1979 · 2 acts
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(Pub. L. 91–597, § 11, , 84 Stat. 1627; Pub. L. 96–88, title V, § 509(b), , 93 Stat. 695.)