11 AAC 32.190. Definitions

Unless the context indicates otherwise, in secs. 100 - 190 of this chapter

(1) "authorized inspector" shall include the director, his duly authorized representatives, or any Government employed egg grading inspector;

(2) "candling" means the practice of examining the interior of an egg by the use of transmitted light for determining inedible eggs, and also for determining the condition of the shell, air cell, white, and yolk in classifying eggs as to quality;

(3) "consumer" means any person who purchases eggs for his or her own family use or consumption;

(4) "container" means any egg-shipping case or carton or any other similar device used for the purpose of holding or transporting eggs, or carton, box, bag, or any other similar device used for the purpose of consumer packaging in which eggs are sold;

(5) "director" means the Director of Agriculture of the State of Alaska;

(6) "distributor" means any person, firm, or corporation offering for sale or distributing eggs in the state to a retailer, cafe, restaurant, or any other establishment offering for sale to the public or to an institutional user and shall include any person, firm, or corporation distributing eggs to his or its own retail outlets or stores but shall not include any person, firm, or corporation engaged only to haul or transport eggs;

(7) "eggs" means the eggs of a domesticated chicken hen, which eggs are in the shell;

(8) "general consumption," when applied to eggs, means shell eggs destined for sale to the general public either through stores, restaurants, mess halls, or in any other manner;

(9) "grade" applies to several or many eggs, such as a dozen, case, or load;

(10) "inedible eggs." Eggs of the following descriptions are classed as inedible: black rots, white rots, mixed rots (addled eggs), sour eggs, eggs with green whites, eggs with stuck yolks, moldy eggs, musty eggs, eggs showing blood rings, eggs containing embryo chicks (at or beyond the blood-ring stage), and any eggs that are adulterated as such term is defined pursuant to the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act;

(11) "loss" means an egg that is inedible, smashed, or broken so that the contents are leaking, cooked, frozen, contaminated, or containing bloody whites, large blood spots, large unsightly meat spots, or other foreign material;

(12) "packer" means any person, firm, or corporation that is engaged in grading, shell treating, or packing shell eggs for sale to the public, direct or through distribution outlets of stores;

(13) "producer" means a person, firm, or corporation selling no eggs other than eggs produced by his or its own flock;

(14) "retailer" means any person, firm, or corporation selling or offering for sale eggs for general consumption in the state;

(15) "shipper" means any person, firm, or corporation shipping eggs into the state to a retailer, cafe, restaurant, or any other establishment offering for sale eggs to the public or for institutional use, and shall include any person, firm, or corporation distributing eggs to his or its own retail outlets or stores and shall not include any person, firm, or corporation engaged only to haul or transport eggs;

(16) "sold" or "sale" includes "offer for sale," "expose for sale," have in "possession for sale," "exchange," "barter" or "trade."

(17) "standard" refers to quality specification for a single egg. A group of these standards is combined in varying percentages of stated quality to make grades;

(18) "state" means the State of Alaska;

(19) "time of shipment" means immediately prior to the time eggs are accepted by the carrier transporting them into the state.

History: In effect before 7/28/59

Authority: AS 03.05.010 - 03.05.080

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