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PAG LIN 1 1 Section 1. Section 196.8, Code 1997, is amended read as 1 2 follows: 1 3 196.8 QUALITY. 1 4 All eggs offered for sale to an establishment must be no 1 5 lower than United States department of agriculture consumer 1 6 grade "B".Retailers selling eggs at retail must hold eggs at1 7a temperature not to exceed sixty degrees Fahrenheit or1 8sixteen degrees Celsius.From the time of candling and 1 9 grading until they reach the consumer, all eggs designated for 1 10 human consumption shall be held at a temperature not to exceed 1 11 forty-five degrees Fahrenheit or seven degrees Celsius ambient 1 12 temperature. The forty-five degrees Fahrenheit or seven 1 13 degrees Celsius ambient temperature requirement applies to any 1 14 place or room in which eggs are stored, except inside a 1 15 vehicle during transportation where the ambient temperature 1 16 may exceed forty-five degrees Fahrenheit or seven degrees 1 17 Celsius, provided the temperature taken inside each egg 1 18 holding container remains at or below forty-five degrees 1 19 Fahrenheit or seven degrees Celsius. All shell eggs shall be 1 20 kept from freezing. 1 21 EXPLANATION 1 22 This bill revises the holding temperature required for eggs 1 23 offered for sale. Currently, Iowa Code section 196.8 requires 1 24 a maximum temperature for eggs stored prior to retail sale of 1 25 60 degrees Fahrenheit or 16 degrees Celsius. This differs 1 26 from the United States Food and Drug Administration and United 1 27 States Department of Agriculture provisions requiring that 1 28 storage temperatures for eggs shipped interstate must not 1 29 exceed 45 degrees Fahrenheit or 7 degrees Celsius. The lower 1 30 maximum temperature requirement has been imposed on interstate 1 31 shipping storage based upon the potential for the growth of 1 32 salmonella enteritidis at higher temperatures. This bill will 1 33 extend the interstate requirements to eggs shipped intrastate. 1 34 LSB 1272DP 77 1 35 rn/jj/8.1
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