Origin
Destination
U.S. Consumer Grade
Case Quality
(Percent)
(Percent)
Grade AA .............
AA (min).................
77
62
A or B ....................
13
28
Check (max)..........
10
10
Grade A ...............
A (min)...................
77
72
B ...........................
13
18
Check (max)..........
10
10
Grade B ...............
B (min)...................
80
80
Check (max)..........
20
20
Figure 3-10. Tolerance for individual case or carton within a lot.
g. "United States Consumer Grade B" (destination) shall consist
of eggs which are 90 percent B Quality or better. Not more than ten percent may be
Checks, and not more than 1 percent Leakers, Dirties or Loss (because of meat or
blood spots) in any combination, except that such Loss may not exceed 0.30 percent.
Other types of Loss are not permitted.
h. Additional Tolerances.
(1) For Grade AA--No individual case may exceed ten percent less AA
Quality eggs than the minimum permitted for the lot average.
(2) For Grade A--No individual case may exceed ten percent less A Quality
eggs than the minimum permitted for the lot average.
(3) For Grade B--No individual case may exceed ten percent less B Quality
eggs than the minimum permitted for the lot average.
(4) For all grades--in lots of two or more cartons, no individual carton may
contain less than eight eggs of the specified quality and no individual carton may
contain less than ten eggs of the specified quality and the next lower quality. No lot is to
be rejected or downgraded because of the quality of a single egg except for types of Loss
other than blood or meat spots.
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