Egg Safety Final Rule (2024)

FAQs

What is the final rule of the egg products inspection regulations? ›

The final rule requires official plants that process egg products (herein also referred to as “egg products plants” or “plants”) to develop and implement Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) Systems and Sanitation Standard Operating Procedures (Sanitation SOPs) and to meet other sanitation requirements ...

Buy eggs only if sold from a refrigerator or refrigerated case. Open the carton and make sure that the eggs are clean and the shells are not cracked. Proper storage of eggs can affect both quality and safety. Store promptly in a clean refrigerator at a temperature of 40° F or below.

FDA's Egg Safety Rule requires those transporting eggs to maintain an ambient temperature of 45 °F beginning 36 hours after laying of the eggs.

FDA Egg Safety Rule

The Egg Rule addresses on-farm practices proven to reduce the risk of SE entering the laying hen environment, including biosecurity, house cleaning and disinfection, fly and rodent control and SE testing. The Egg Rule requires eggs to be refrigerated on farm within 36 hours of lay.

This is the last quality control check that is done before a product is shipped out. It allows you to catch any quality control issues that may have been missed earlier in the manufacturing process. A final inspection is usually done on products that are mass-produced, such as clothing, electronics, or toys.

Under this final rule, all poultry slaughter establishments must develop, implement, and maintain written procedures to ensure that carcasses contaminated with visible fecal material do not enter the chiller, and they must incorporate these procedures into their HACCP plans, or sanitation SOPs, or other prerequisite ...

Store promptly in a clean refrigerator at a temperature of 40° F or below. Use a refrigerator thermometer to check. Store eggs in their original carton and use them within 3 weeks for best quality. Use or eat hard-cooked eggs (in the shell or peeled) within 1 week after cooking.

The FDA recommends consuming hard-boiled eggs within a week, and two weeks is well past that deadline. Since spoiled hard-boiled eggs can make you sick, it's best to be safe and toss out any leftover hard-boiled eggs that have been in the fridge for more than one week.

Whether you raise, sell, give away or purchase farm fresh shell eggs, you can enjoy safe fresh local eggs when they are properly cleaned, candled, graded, sized, packed and stored.

United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service and the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) share federal regulatory responsibility for egg safety, with the regulation of shell eggs primarily the responsibility of FDA.

What is the fresh egg rule? ›

The American Egg Board recommends eggs be used four to five weeks after they were packed, but we may not always know when that was. 1 In addition, if you remove the eggs from the carton when you return from the store or purchase fresh eggs from a farm, you may be uncertain how old they are.

Buy clean – check eggs are clean and uncracked before purchasing. Keep cool – store eggs in the fridge in their cartons. Cook well – cook eggs until they are hot all the way through, especially when serving to pregnant women, young children, elderly people and anyone with a chronic illness.

Under the egg marketing regulations, for eggs to be labelled free-range, the birds must have outdoor access from 21 weeks of age and may only be housed during specific circ*mstances to protect their health and welfare, ie during government housing orders to protect against Avian influenza.

Put the egg in the water—if it sinks, it's good; if it floats, it's too old.) The science behind this is that as eggs age, the shell becomes more porous, allowing air to flow through.

Eggs, whether loose or packed, must be marked with a best-before date (see 'Labelling accompanying eggs at retail level' above), which is legally known as a date of minimum durability. The best-before date must be no longer than 28 days from the date of laying and retailers must sell eggs within 21 days of laying.

Inspection rules allow you to define how inspection results are determined. You create a rule for each object that you want to inspect. You specify a result for each rule and configure the conditions that must be met for the rule to return that result. If one rule fails, the inspection fails.