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[CITE: 21USC1054]

 
                        TITLE 21--FOOD AND DRUGS
 
                   CHAPTER 15--EGG PRODUCTS INSPECTION
 
Sec. 1054. Annual report to Congressional committees

    Not later than March 1 of each year following December 29, 1970, the 
Secretary shall submit to the Committee on Agriculture of the House of 
Representatives and the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and 
Forestry of the Senate a comprehensive and detailed written report with 
respect to--
        (1) the processing, storage, handling, and distribution of eggs 
    and egg products subject to the provisions of this chapter; the 
    inspection of establishments operated in connection therewith; the 
    effectiveness of the operations of the inspection, including the 
    effectiveness of the operations of State egg inspection programs; 
    and recommendations for legislation to improve such program; and
        (2) the administration of section 1046 of this title (relating 
    to imports) during the immediately preceding calendar year, 
    including but not limited to--
            (A) a certification by the Secretary that foreign plants 
        exporting eggs or egg products to the United States have 
        complied with requirements of this chapter and regulations 
        issued thereunder;
            (B) the names and locations of plants authorized or 
        permitted to export eggs or egg products to the United States;
            (C) the number of inspectors employed by the Department of 
        Agriculture in the calendar year concerned who were assigned to 
        inspect plants referred to in paragraph (B) hereof and the 
        frequency with which each such plant was inspected by such 
        inspectors;
            (D) the number of inspectors that were licensed by each 
        country from which any imports were received and that were 
        assigned, during the calendar year concerned, to inspect such 
        imports and the facilities in which such imports were handled; 
        and the frequency and effectiveness of such inspections;
            (E) the total volume of eggs and egg products which was 
        imported into the United States during the calendar year 
        concerned from each country, including a separate itemization of 
        the volume of each major category of such imports from each 
        country during such year, and a detailed report of rejections of 
        plants and products because of failure to meet appropriate 
        standards prescribed by this chapter; and
            (F) recommendations for legislation to improve such program.

(Pub. L. 91-597, Sec. 26, Dec. 29, 1970, 84 Stat. 1634; Pub. L. 103-437, 
Sec. 8(4), Nov. 2, 1994, 108 Stat. 4588.)


                               Amendments

    1994--Pub. L. 103-437 substituted ``Agriculture, Nutrition, and 
Forestry'' for ``Agriculture and Forestry'' in introductory provisions.
