Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 3508 – Sanitation and related matters
(a) Any person assembling, transporting, marketing, or processing graded eggs for marketing shall keep the eggs at a temperature in accordance with United States Department of Agriculture temperature requirements. In addition, any container, including the packaging material therein or associated therewith, shall be clean, unbroken and free from foreign odor.
Terms Used In Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 3508
- Eggs: means eggs in the shell that are the product of domesticated chickens. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 3501
- Person: means any individual, producer, firm, partnership, exchange, association, trustee, receiver, corporation or any other entity and any member, officer, employee or agent thereof. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 3501
- United States: includes its territories and possessions and the District of Columbia. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
(b) The Department of Agriculture shall by rules and regulations provide for the keeping, processing, transporting and sale of eggs under sanitary conditions.
(c) Nothing in this chapter or in any rules or regulations of the Department of Agriculture shall be construed to exempt any persons or premises from the application thereto of any laws otherwise applicable and relating to the operation of establishments or facilities for the storing, transporting, sale, distribution, preparation or serving of food.
43 Del. Laws, c. 88, § ?8; 3 Del. C. 1953, § ?3508; 56 Del. Laws, c. 258, § ?1; 57 Del. Laws, c. 764, § ?14; 69 Del. Laws, c. 98, § ?1;