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 1        AN ACT concerning farm products.

 2        Be  it  enacted  by  the People of the State of Illinois,
 3    represented in the General Assembly:

 4        Section 5.  The Illinois Egg  and  Egg  Products  Act  is
 5    amended by changing Sections 6, 8, 10, and 15 as follows:

 6        (410 ILCS 615/6) (from Ch. 56 1/2, par. 55-6)
 7        Sec.  6.  Candling;  labeling; sales by producers; retail
 8    sales; temperature requirements.  All eggs sold at retail  or
 9    purchased  by  institutional  consumers  must  be candled for
10    quality and graded for size.
11        A producer may sell, direct to a household  consumer  for
12    that  consumer's  personal use and that consumer's non-paying
13    guests, eggs produced  by  a  producer's  own  birds  without
14    candling or grading the eggs.
15        A  producer  may  sell on his own premises where eggs are
16    produced, direct to household consumers, for  the  consumer's
17    personal  use and that consumer's non-paying guests, nest run
18    eggs classified as checks and  dirties  without  candling  or
19    grading those eggs.
20        All  eggs  designated for sale off the premises where the
21    flock is located, such as at farmers' markets, and at  retail
22    or  for institutional use must be candled and graded and held
23    in a place or room in which the temperature may not exceed 45
24    degrees Fahrenheit after processing.  Nest run eggs shall  be
25    held  at  60  degrees Fahrenheit or less at all times. During
26    transportation, the egg temperature may not exceed 45 degrees
27    Fahrenheit.
28        Hatcheries  buying  eggs  for  hatching   purposes   from
29    producers  under  contract  may  sell their surplus eggs to a
30    licensed packer or handler provided that the  hatchery  shall
31    keep  records  which  indicate  the number of cases sold, the
 
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 1    date of sale and the  name  and  address  of  the  packer  or
 2    handler making the purchase.
 3        All  eggs candled or candled and graded outside the State
 4    must meet Federal  standards  before  they  can  be  sold  or
 5    offered  for  sale  in the State.  No eggs may be offered for
 6    sale for consumer use  after  the  original  30-day  candling
 7    date.  All  eggs  candled  or  candled  and  graded  must  be
 8    recandled  and  regraded if not sold at retail within 30 days
 9    of the original candling date.
10        Each container of  eggs  offered  for  sale  or  sold  at
11    wholesale  or  retail  must be labeled in accordance with the
12    standards established by the Department showing grade,  size,
13    packer  identification, and candling packing date, and may be
14    labeled with an expiration date, or other similar language as
15    specified by USDA standards, that is not later than  30  days
16    from after the candling packing date for grade A eggs and not
17    later than 15 days after the candling date for grade AA eggs.
18    The date of candling and an expiration date not later than 30
19    days  after  the  date of packing must appear in lettering on
20    the container in which the eggs are offered  for  sale.  Eggs
21    identified  as  grade  AA  shall  have an expiration date not
22    later than 15 days after the date of packing.
23        The grade and size of eggs must be  conspicuously  marked
24    in bold  face type on all consumer-size containers.
25        The size and height of lettering or numbering requirement
26    shall  be  set  by  regulation  and  shall conform as near as
27    possible to those required by Federal law.
28        All advertising of shell eggs for sale at  retail  for  a
29    stated  price  shall  contain the grade and size of the eggs.
30    The information contained in such advertising  shall  not  be
31    misleading  or  deceptive.  In  cases  of  food-borne disease
32    outbreaks in which eggs are identified as the source  of  the
33    disease,   all   eggs   from  the  flocks  from  which  those
34    disease-causing eggs came shall be identified with a producer
 
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 1    identification or flock code number to control  the  movement
 2    of those eggs.
 3    (Source: P.A. 89-154, eff. 7-19-95.)

 4        (410 ILCS 615/8) (from Ch. 56 1/2, par. 55-8)
 5        Sec.  8.  Any person or business who buys, sells, trades,
 6    or  traffics  in  eggs  in  this  State  and  is  a   broker,
 7    distributor,  handler,  packer, producer, or producer-dealer,
 8    as defined in this Act, must be licensed  in  this  State.  A
 9    limited or full license must be purchased annually. No person
10    or business shall buy, sell, trade, or traffic in barter eggs
11    in  this  State without having obtained a license as provided
12    in Section 9, except the following:
13        (a)  A producer who obtains  eggs  from  his  own  flock,
14    regardless  of  the size of the flock, and sells them as nest
15    run eggs, either to household consumers on the premises where
16    the flock is located, or to a  holder  of  an   Illinois  Egg
17    License;
18        (b)  Hatcheries   which   purchase   eggs   to   be  used
19    exclusively for hatching purposes;
20        (c)  Institutional consumers where all eggs purchased are
21    served in the establishment;
22        (d)  Manufacturers of food  products  who  use  all  eggs
23    purchased    in    their    products    such   as   bakeries,
24    confectioneries, and ice cream manufacturers, etc.;
25        (e)  Agents employed and carried  on  the  payroll  on  a
26    salary  basis by licensed dealers or distributors;
27        (f)  A consumer buying eggs for his own consumption;
28        (g)  A  retailer who buys eggs from licensed distributors
29    or from licensed handlers only and sells eggs only at retail.
30    (Source: P.A. 89-154, eff. 7-19-95.)

31        (410 ILCS 615/10) (from Ch. 56 1/2, par. 55-10)
32        Sec. 10.  Inspection fee.  The  Director  shall  set,  by
 
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 1    regulation,  a  per case inspection fee which shall cover the
 2    administrative and inspection costs of the  program  required
 3    by  the Act.  In no case shall the rate exceed 6¢ per each 30
 4    dozen eggs or fraction thereof.
 5        The inspection fee as set  shall  be  imposed  upon  eggs
 6    bearing  a designated size and grade sold or offered for sale
 7    in Illinois.  The first handler in Illinois  who  packed  and
 8    sold the eggs must pay the prescribed inspection fee on those
 9    eggs.  If  eggs  are  shipped  into Illinois, the handler who
10    invoiced the eggs to Illinois must pay the fee. The fee shall
11    be paid by the handler at the point of candling and  grading.
12    When  the handler sells the eggs, the inspection fee shall be
13    charged in addition to the sale price of the eggs  and  shall
14    be  remitted  to  the  seller  by  the  purchaser. Each sales
15    invoice shall indicate the amount of inspection fee  for  the
16    transaction.     Eggs  sold  and  shipped out of the State of
17    Illinois by Illinois packers are exempt from  the  inspection
18    fee.
19        The  inspection  fee  shall be paid only once on the same
20    quantity of  eggs  so  long  as  those  eggs  maintain  their
21    identity  by  remaining  in  their  original  case, carton or
22    package.  All  inspection  fees  shall  be  paid   into   the
23    "Agricultural Master Fund" to the credit of a special account
24    designated  as  the  "Auxiliary  Egg  Inspection Fund".   All
25    amounts credited to the "Auxiliary Egg Inspection Fund" shall
26    be used for the enforcement of the provisions  of  this  Act.
27    The  method  and  manner  of  collecting  the  inspection fee
28    levied, whether it be by the use of stamps, monthly reporting
29    and collecting from dealers or  any  other  method  shall  be
30    prescribed  by the Director of Agriculture, pursuant to rules
31    and regulations adopted for this purpose as authorized  under
32    the provisions of this Act.
33    (Source: P.A. 89-154, eff. 7-19-95.)
 
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 1        (410 ILCS 615/15) (from Ch. 56 1/2, par. 55-15)
 2        Sec. 15.  Samples; packing methods.  The Department shall
 3    prescribe  methods  in  conformity  with  the  United  States
 4    Department   of   Agriculture  specifications  for  selecting
 5    samples of lots, cases or containers of eggs or egg  products
 6    which   shall   be  reasonably  calculated  to  produce  fair
 7    representations of the entire lots or  cases  and  containers
 8    sampled.  Any  sample  taken shall be prima facie evidence in
 9    any court in this State of the true condition of  the  entire
10    lot,  case  or  container  of  eggs  or  egg  products in the
11    examination of which the sample was taken.
12        It shall be unlawful for any handler or retailer to  pack
13    eggs  into  consumer-size  containers  other  than during the
14    original candling and grading operations unless:
15        (a)  The loose eggs to be so transferred  are  in  master
16    case stamped no more than 5 days previous indicating that the
17    size and quality have been verified.
18        (b)  The  process  of  transferring is done in a licensed
19    establishment.
20        (c)  (Blank).
21        (d)  The loose eggs to be transferred are reprocessed  in
22    the  same  manner  as nest-run eggs and each egg is recandled
23    for  quality  and  regraded  for  size  in  an  establishment
24    recognized as a competent grading facility by the Director or
25    his authorized representative.
26        (e)  (Blank) The retail location shall be granted written
27    permission to repack eggs and shall comply with the following
28    requirements:
29             (1)  A retailer shall only repackage clean and sound
30        shell  eggs  which  originated  from   properly   labeled
31        consumer-size  containers that have been damaged or their
32        contents damaged.  The  repacked  eggs  shall  meet  U.S.
33        Department  of Agriculture standards for consumer Grade B
34        eggs.  Eggs in the repacked consumer-size container shall
 
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 1        be no less than medium in size.  It shall be unlawful  to
 2        repackage  eggs  that  do  not  meet  the requirements of
 3        Section 6 of this Act.
 4             (2)  The consumer-size egg container  that  contains
 5        eggs  that  have  been  repacked  shall be labeled with a
 6        statement declaring that the eggs in the  container  were
 7        repackaged  by  the  retail  store  offering the eggs for
 8        sale, the name of the retail  store,  its  location,  the
 9        date  the eggs were repacked and the oldest candling date
10        which appeared on  the  consumer-size  egg  container  or
11        containers  from  which  the  repackaged eggs originated.
12        The repackaged egg container shall also be labeled "Grade
13        B Medium" and contain a statement indicating  that  "some
14        of the eggs may be larger than indicated on the carton".
15             (3)  The  labeling  on  the  consumer-size container
16        used for the repackaged eggs  shall  meet  the  type  and
17        lettering  size  requirements as required on the original
18        consumer-size  containers.    The   additional   labeling
19        information  required on repacked egg containers shall be
20        in bold face type with lettering no less than 1/8 inch in
21        height.
22             (4)  The Department shall grant  written  permission
23        to repackage eggs at the retail level when an application
24        is made by a retailer.
25        If  procedures  described in paragraph (a) or (b) of this
26    Section are executed, the mandatory  labeling as  it  appears
27    on  the  master  cases  with respect to name, address, grade,
28    size and candling date must be identical to the  labeling  on
29    the   consumer-size   containers  into  which  the  eggs  are
30    transferred except that the name and address may be  changed,
31    provided  that  the words "packed for",  "packed by" or words
32    of similar import do not appear.
33    (Source: P.A. 89-154, eff. 7-19-95.)
 
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 1        Section 99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect  upon
 2    becoming law.

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