260 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION 



THE STATE EGG LAW, EGG BREAKING ESTABLISH- 

 MENTS, "BREAKING STOCK." 



Illinois State Food Department, W. Scott Matthews, 

 Commissioner. 



The Law. 



Section 39B : It shall be unlawful to ship, or otherwise dis- 

 pose of in any kind of a container, or in any other manner, any 

 collection of eggs, or any eggs known as ''yolks stuck to the 

 shell," ''heavy blood rings," "partially hatched," "moldy eggs," 

 **black spots," "black rots," or any other eggs of an unwhole- 

 some nature unless the same are broken in the shell and then 

 denatured, so as to render the same unfit for human food. 



Eggs exclusive of the above named varieties which are not 

 intended for sale to the trade in shell/form, are hereby declared 

 "Breaking Stock." 



"Breaking Stock" when packed in cases sealed with proper 

 identifying strips, that have been approved by the State Food 

 Commissioner, may be shipped from within or without the State 

 of Illinois, either directly or otherwise, to licensed egg breaking 

 establishments in Illinois. 



All persons, firms or corporations that engage in the State 

 of Illinois in the business of removing eggs from their shells in 

 the manufacture of frozen, liquid, dessicated, or any other form 

 of whole Qgg, yolks, whites or any mixture of yolks and whites, 

 with or without the addition of any other ingredients, shall be- 

 fore engaging in such business apply to the State Food Commis- 

 sioner for a license. Thereupon the State Food Commissioner 

 or his agents shall inspect the establishment and equipment of 

 said egg breaking establishment, and he shall also ascertain if 

 the said establishment complies in method and equipment with 

 the Sanitary Law and the rules and regulations that shall from 

 time to time be established by the State Food Commissioner for 

 the governing of these establishments. If after such inspection 



