2006 Minnesota Statutes

29.21 DEFINITIONS.
    Subdivision 1. Person. The word "person" when used in sections 29.21 to 29.28 means any
individual, firm, partnership, corporation, company, association, joint stock association, and shall
include any officer, employee, agent, trustee, receiver, assignee, or other similar representative
thereof, provided that neither a producer of eggs when selling shell eggs produced on a farm
occupied and cultivated by the producer, nor a hatchery which produces or purchases shell eggs
solely for hatching shall be deemed a "person."
    Subd. 2.[Repealed, 1996 c 310 s 1]
    Subd. 3. Department. The word "department" means the Department of Agriculture unless
otherwise indicated.
    Subd. 4. Checks. "Checks" means eggs that have cracks or breaks in the shell but have intact
shell membranes that do not leak.
    Subd. 5. Dirties. "Dirties" means eggs with adhering dirt, foreign material, prominent stains,
or moderate stains covering more than 1/32 of the shell surface, if localized, or 1/16 of the shell
surface, if scattered.
    Subd. 6. Egg handler. "Egg handler" means a person who buys, sells, transports, stores,
processes, or in any other way receives or has shell eggs. This includes farmers who sell candled
and graded eggs off their premises.
    Subd. 7. Grading. "Grading" means assigning an identifying classification to a group of
eggs that demonstrates that those eggs have the same degree of quality.
    Subd. 8. Incubator rejects. "Incubator rejects" means eggs that have been subjected to
incubation and have been removed during the hatching operation as infertile or otherwise
unhatchable.
    Subd. 9. Leakers. "Leakers" means eggs that have a crack or break in the shell and shell
membrane to the extent that the contents pass or are free to pass through the shell.
    Subd. 10. Loss. "Loss" means eggs that are unfit for human consumption because they are
smashed, broken, leaking, overheated, frozen, contaminated, or incubator rejects, or because they
contain bloody whites, large meat spots, a large quantity of blood, or other foreign material.
    Subd. 11. Restricted eggs. "Restricted eggs" means eggs that contain dirties, checks, leakers,
inedibles, loss, and incubator rejects.
History: 1957 c 819 s 1; 1961 c 113 s 1; 1961 c 406 s 1; 1967 c 141 s 1; 1986 c 444;
1991 c 179 s 1-8