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[CITE: 21USC1040]

 
                        TITLE 21--FOOD AND DRUGS
 
                   CHAPTER 15--EGG PRODUCTS INSPECTION
 
Sec. 1040. Recordkeeping requirements; persons required to 
        maintain records; scope of disclosure; access to records
        
    For the purpose of enforcing the provisions of this chapter and the 
regulations promulgated thereunder, all persons engaged in the business 
of transporting, shipping, or receiving any eggs or egg products in 
commerce or holding such articles so received, and all egg handlers, 
shall maintain such records showing, for such time and in such form and 
manner, as the Secretary of Agriculture or the Secretary of Health and 
Human Services may prescribe, to the extent that they are concerned 
therewith, the receipt, delivery, sale, movement, and disposition of all 
eggs and egg products handled by them, and shall, upon the request of a 
duly authorized representative of either of said Secretaries, permit him 
at reasonable times to have access to and to copy all such records.

(Pub. L. 91-597, Sec. 11, Dec. 29, 1970, 84 Stat. 1627; Pub. L. 96-88, 
title V, Sec. 509(b), Oct. 17, 1979, 93 Stat. 695.)

                         Change of Name

    ``Secretary of Health and Human Services'' substituted in text for 
``Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare'' pursuant to section 
509(b) of Pub. L. 96-88, which is classified to section 3508(b) of Title 
20, Education.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 1034, 1037, 1041, 1052 of 
this title.
