Section 370IAC1-11-1. Definitions

   The following definitions apply throughout this rule:

(1) "Brand" means any designation that differentiates a consumer package of eggs, such as, but not limited to, the following:

(A) Production method.

(B) Nutritional claim.

(C) Private label brands.

(D) Shell color.

(2) "Dirty egg" means an individual egg that has an unbroken shell with adhering dirt or foreign material, or prominent stains. Yolk is considered foreign material.

(3) "Leaker" means an individual egg that has a crack or break in the shell and shell membranes to the extent that the egg contents are exuding or free to exude through the shell.

(4) "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, brand, pack date, and packing facility.

(5) "Repacking" means changing the identity of a lot of shell eggs by removing them from the original container labeled by a packer and placing them into another container not labeled by the packer at the point of origin with the same grade, size, brand, pack date, and packing facility.

(State Egg Board; 370 IAC 1-11-1; filed Aug 27, 2010, 12:08 p.m.: 20100922-IR-370090808FRA; readopted filed Aug 21, 2015, 10:57 a.m.: 20150916-IR-370150168RFA)