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Egg Products
Egg Products II
Egg Products III
Egg Product Handling
Agencies that Regulate Shell Eggs
100
This term refers to eggs that are removed from their shells for processing.
What are egg products?
100
This provides for the mandatory continuous inspection of the processing of liquid, frozen, and dried egg products.
What is the Egg Products Inspection Act (EPIA) of 1970?
100

Which Act  requires that all egg products distributed for consumption be pasteurized.

What is the 1970 Egg Products Inspection Act (EPIA)? 

100
How long egg products may be stored for best quality.
What is up to 1 year?
100

Agency responsible for the Shell Egg Surveillance Program to assure that eggs in the marketplace are as good as or better than U.S. Consumer Grade B quality standards.

What is the Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS)?

200
These facilities break, filter mix, stabilize, blend, pasteurize, cool, freeze, dry, and/or package eggs.
What are breaker plants?
200
This division of the USDA was responsible for inspecting egg products to ensure they were wholesome, otherwise not adulterated, and properly labeled and packaged to protect the health and welfare of consumers from 1970-1995.
What is the Poultry Division?
200

This process requires that eggs must be rapidly heated and held at a minimum required temperature for a specified time. This destroys  Salmonella, but it does not cook the eggs or affect their color, flavor, nutritional value, or use. 

What is pasteurization?
200
This should happen in the refrigerator or under cold running water, but NOT on the counter.
What is thawing frozen egg products?
200

These should be used immediately or refrigerated and used that day

What are reconstituted egg products?

300
This department of the government is responsible for inspecting plants that process egg products?
What is the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)?
300
This government agency became responsible for the inspection of egg products in 1995.

What is the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS)?

300

These include freeze-dried products, imitation egg products, and egg substitutes.

What are commodities that are not presently considered egg products and are exempt from the law?

300
This should be followed when deciding how quickly to consume egg products.
What is the "use-by" date on the container?
300

This agency conducts activities to reduce the risk of disease in flocks of laying hens. 

What is the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS)?

400
Includes whole eggs, whites, yolks, and various blends - with or without non-egg ingredients - that are processed and pasteurized. 
What are basic egg products?
400

This department is responsible for the inspection of egg substitutes, imitation eggs, and similar products which are exempted from continuous inspection under the EPIA.

What is The Department of Health and Human Services’ FDA?

400

This  is a blend of dried whole eggs, nonfat dry milk, soybean oil, and a small amount of salt.

What is USDA Dried Egg Mix?

400
This is the temperature that liquid egg products without an expiration date should be stored at.
What is 40 degrees F or below?
400

The agency is responsible for the import of eggs destined for further processing and for assuring that imported shell eggs destined for the retail market are transported under refrigerated conditions.

What is the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS)?

500
This began in St. Louis, Missouri in 1880.
What is commercial egg drying?
500

This country is the only active exporter of egg products to the United States.

What is Canada?
500
This prevents bacterial contamination.
What are safe handling and storage?
500
This is the amount of time that liquid egg products without an expiration date can be stored.
What is up to 7 days?
500

This agency established the Egg Safety and Quality Research Unit at the Russell Research Center in Athens, GA, to expand egg safety and egg processing research.

What is the Agricultural Research Service (ARS)?