Illinois Egg and Egg Products Act

Sections covered

• 410 ILCS 615/1This Act may be cited as the Illinois Egg and Egg Products Act
• 410 ILCS 615/10Inspection fee
• 410 ILCS 615/11.1(Repealed)
• 410 ILCS 615/11.2(Repealed)
• 410 ILCS 615/11.3(Repealed)
• 410 ILCS 615/11.4(Repealed)
• 410 ILCS 615/11.5Investigation; notice; hearing
• 410 ILCS 615/12Public Health › 410 ILCS 615 — Illinois Egg and Egg Products Act
• 410 ILCS 615/13The Director shall make rules and regulations necessary for the effective administration of this Act
• 410 ILCS 615/14.1(Repealed)
• 410 ILCS 615/14.2Public Health › 410 ILCS 615 — Illinois Egg and Egg Products Act
• 410 ILCS 615/14.3(Repealed)
• 410 ILCS 615/15Samples; packing methods
• 410 ILCS 615/16Public Health › 410 ILCS 615 — Illinois Egg and Egg Products Act
• 410 ILCS 615/16.5Violations; administrative monetary penalties
• 410 ILCS 615/16.6Violations; penalties
• 410 ILCS 615/16.7Suspension and revocation of license
• 410 ILCS 615/16.9Termination of application; forfeiture of license fee
• 410 ILCS 615/17(Repealed)
• 410 ILCS 615/17.5Subpoenas
• 410 ILCS 615/18(Repealed)
• 410 ILCS 615/18.5Administrative procedure
• 410 ILCS 615/19All final administrative decisions of the Department are subject to judicial review under Article III of the Code of Civil Procedure and rules adopted under that Article
• 410 ILCS 615/2Public Health › 410 ILCS 615 — Illinois Egg and Egg Products Act
• 410 ILCS 615/20Deposit of fees and civil penalties
• 410 ILCS 615/21The invalidity of any Section or parts of any Section of this Act or any rule or regulation pursuant thereto shall not affect the validity of the remainder of this Act, or any rule or regulation
• 410 ILCS 615/3Definitions
• 410 ILCS 615/3.1Public Health › 410 ILCS 615 — Illinois Egg and Egg Products Act
• 410 ILCS 615/3.10"Dirty egg" means an egg that has a shell that is unbroken and has adhering dirt or foreign material, or prominent stains on the shell surface, or moderate stains covering more than 1/4 of the shell surface
• 410 ILCS 615/3.11"Distributor" means any person who sells eggs to retailers or institutional consumers and shall include any person distributing eggs to his or to its own retail outlets or stores, but not including any person only engaged in the hauling or transporting of eggs
• 410 ILCS 615/3.12Public Health › 410 ILCS 615 — Illinois Egg and Egg Products Act
• 410 ILCS 615/3.13"Eggs" means the shell eggs of the domesticated chicken, turkey, duck, goose, or guinea
• 410 ILCS 615/3.14"Facilities" means any room or place, compartment, refrigerator, or vehicle used in handling eggs in any manner
• 410 ILCS 615/3.15Public Health › 410 ILCS 615 — Illinois Egg and Egg Products Act
• 410 ILCS 615/3.16Public Health › 410 ILCS 615 — Illinois Egg and Egg Products Act
• 410 ILCS 615/3.16a"Hazardous-disease-infected flock" means a flock of chickens that has been found to be infected with salmonella or another poultry disease that may be injurious to the health of humans
• 410 ILCS 615/3.17Public Health › 410 ILCS 615 — Illinois Egg and Egg Products Act
• 410 ILCS 615/3.18"Inspector" means any employee or official authorized to inspect eggs or egg products and to enforce other regulatory measures necessary to effectively carry out the mandate of this Act
• 410 ILCS 615/3.19"Institutional consumer" means any restaurant, hotel, boarding house, hospital, nursing home, government institution, or any other business facility or place in which eggs are prepared or offered as food for use by its patrons, residents, inmates, or patients
• 410 ILCS 615/3.2"Broker" means any person who arranges the transfer or ownership of eggs or egg products from one person to another and who may or may not take possession of such eggs or egg products in the process
• 410 ILCS 615/3.20"Leaker" means an egg that has a crack or break in the shell and shell membranes to the extent that the egg contents are exposed or are exuding or free to exude through the shell
• 410 ILCS 615/3.21"Loss" means an egg that is unfit for human food because it is smashed or broken so that its contents are leaking; or overheated, frozen, or contaminated; or an incubator reject; or because it contains a bloody white, large meat spots, a large quantity of blood, or other foreign material
• 410 ILCS 615/3.21a"Lot consolidation" means the removal of damaged eggs from consumer labeled cartons and replacement of the damaged eggs with eggs of the same grade, size, sell-by date, brand, lot, and source
• 410 ILCS 615/3.22"Master container" means any type of box or case made of plastic, wire, cardboard, or other suitable material, used to distribute consumer-size containers to retailers or institutional consumers or bulk (loose) eggs to institutional consumers
• 410 ILCS 615/3.23"Nest run eggs" means eggs which are packed as they come from the production facilities without having been washed, sized, or candled for quality, with the exception that some checks, dirties or other obvious undergrades may have been removed
• 410 ILCS 615/3.24"Official plant" means any establishment at which inspection of the processing of egg products is maintained by the Department under the authority of this Act or by the United States Department of Agriculture under authority of the Federal Egg Products Inspection Act
• 410 ILCS 615/3.25"Packer" means any person who grades, sizes, candles, and packs eggs for purpose of resale
• 410 ILCS 615/3.26"Person" means and includes any individual, partnership, firm, corporation, producer, exchange, association, trustee, receiver, or any other entity and any member officer, employee, or agent thereof
• 410 ILCS 615/3.27"Processing" means manufacturing egg products, including breaking eggs or filtering, mixing, blending, pasteurizing, stabilizing, cooling, freezing, drying, or packaging egg products
• 410 ILCS 615/3.28Public Health › 410 ILCS 615 — Illinois Egg and Egg Products Act
• 410 ILCS 615/3.29"Producer-dealer" means a producer who candles and grades eggs of his own production or additional eggs other than his own production to sell on or off the premises to household consumers, institutional consumers, distributors, manufacturers, or retailers
• 410 ILCS 615/3.3"Candling" means the careful examination, in an adequately dark room or place, of the whole egg by means of a strong light, the apparatus and method employed to be such as shall be approved by the said Department
• 410 ILCS 615/3.30"Restricted egg" means any check, dirty egg, incubator reject, inedible, leaker, or loss
• 410 ILCS 615/3.31"Retailer" means a person who buys candled and graded eggs or egg products from a licensed manufacturer, licensed handler, or licensed distributor for resale to a consumer only, or who buys candled or graded eggs or egg products to use in the preparation of other consumer foods for resale
• 410 ILCS 615/3.32"Sell" means offer for sale, expose for sale, have in possession for sale, barter, trade, distribute, market, or traffic in eggs in any manner
• 410 ILCS 615/3.33"Shell treated egg" means that the shell has been treated with oil or other approved preservative preparation
• 410 ILCS 615/3.34"State" means the State of Illinois
• 410 ILCS 615/3.35"Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act" means the Act approved June 25, 1938 (52 Stat.1040), as amended
• 410 ILCS 615/3.36"Egg Products Inspection Act" means the federal Act approved December 29, 1970 (84 Stat
• 410 ILCS 615/3.4"Check" means an egg that has a broken shell or crack in the shell but has its membranes intact and contents not leaking
• 410 ILCS 615/3.5"Clean and sound shell egg" means any egg whose shell is free of adhering dirt or foreign material and is not cracked or broken
• 410 ILCS 615/3.6"Consumer" means any person who acquires eggs for consumption by members of his own household, nonpaying guests and employees, and not for resale
• 410 ILCS 615/3.7"Consumer-size container" means any case, carton, sleeve, or other container approved by the Department which is used to market eggs to consumers
• 410 ILCS 615/3.8"Department" means the Department of Agriculture of the State of Illinois
• 410 ILCS 615/3.9"Director" means the Director of the Department of Agriculture of the State of Illinois
• 410 ILCS 615/4Sale of unfit eggs or egg products
• 410 ILCS 615/5Public Health › 410 ILCS 615 — Illinois Egg and Egg Products Act
• 410 ILCS 615/6Candling; labeling; sales by producers; retail sales; temperature requirements
• 410 ILCS 615/7Public Health › 410 ILCS 615 — Illinois Egg and Egg Products Act
• 410 ILCS 615/8Any person or business who buys, sells, trades, or traffics in eggs in this State and is a broker, distributor, handler, packer, producer, or producer-dealer, as defined in this Act, must be licensed in this State
• 410 ILCS 615/9Licenses; fees