159Meaning of “egg business”

159 Meaning of “egg business”

159 Meaning of “egg business”

(1) In the egg food safety scheme, egg business means a business involving any of the following—

(a) producing, washing, grading or dry cleaning more than 240 eggs in a week,

(b) examining more than 240 eggs in a week to detect cracks,

(c) manufacturing, pasteurising or processing—

(i) egg products, or

(ii) blended egg product mixtures,

(d) transporting the following products or a combination of the products—

(i) egg products, other than in dried form,

(ii) blended egg product mixtures, other than in dried form,

(iii) cracked eggs,

(e) storing the following products or a combination of the products on premises other than egg food production premises—

(i) egg products, other than in dried form,

(ii) blended egg product mixtures, other than in dried form,

(iii) cracked eggs.

(2) For subsection (1)(b), examining eggs to detect cracks does not include the random examination of eggs for the purposes of general quality control.

(3) In this section—

egg food production premises means premises in connection with a business that undertakes the following on the premises—

(a) manufacturing or processing egg products or blended egg product mixtures,

(b) producing food using egg products or blended egg product mixtures, or both.