---
kind: "section"
citation: "21 U.S.C. § 1032"
title: "21"
title_heading: "Food and Drugs"
number: "1032"
heading: "Congressional declaration of policy"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/21/1032"
units:
  - "Chapter 15 — Egg Products Inspection"
---

# §1032. Congressional declaration of policy


It is hereby declared to be the policy of the Congress to provide for the [inspection](/usc/21/1033.md?p=j) of certain [egg products](/usc/21/1033.md?p=f), restrictions upon the disposition of certain qualities of [eggs](/usc/21/1033.md?p=g), and uniformity of standards for [eggs](/usc/21/1033.md?p=g), and otherwise regulate the [processing](/usc/21/1033.md?p=w) and distribution of [eggs](/usc/21/1033.md?p=g) and [egg products](/usc/21/1033.md?p=f) as hereinafter prescribed to prevent the movement or sale for human food, of [eggs](/usc/21/1033.md?p=g) and [egg products](/usc/21/1033.md?p=f) which are [adulterated](/usc/21/1033.md?p=a) or [misbranded](/usc/21/1033.md?p=l) or otherwise in violation of this chapter.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 91–597, § 3, Dec. 29, 1970, 84 Stat. 1621.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

This chapter, referred to in text, was in the original “this Act”, meaning Pub. L. 91–597, Dec. 29, 1970, 84 Stat. 1620, which is classified principally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 1031 of this title and Tables.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

For effective date of this section, see section 29 of Pub. L. 91–597, set out as a note under section 1031 of this title.