3-703. Definitions of inedible eggs


In this article, unless the context otherwise requires:


1. "Addled" or "white rot" means putrid or rotten.


2. "Adherent yolk" means the yolk has become fastened to the shell.


3. "Adulterated eggs" are eggs that are filthy, putrid, decomposed or otherwise
unfit for food in whole or in part.


4. "Denatured eggs" are eggs made unfit for human food by treatment or the addition
of a foreign substance or ordure or chemical.


5. "Inedible eggs" are those described and classed as black rots, white rots, mixed
rots (addled eggs), sour eggs, eggs with green whites, eggs with stuck yolks, moldy eggs,
musty eggs, eggs showing blood rings, denatured eggs, adulterated eggs, or eggs
containing embryo chicks (at or beyond the blood ring stage), eggs containing large blood
and meat spots, or any other eggs that are filthy, decomposed or putrid.


6. "Loss" means eggs that are inedible, smashed, broken so that the contents are
leaking, contaminated, or which contain bloody whites, large blood spots, large unsightly
meat spots or other foreign material.


7. "Moldy" or "black spot" or "black rot" means the presence of mold or bacteria
inside the shell.