---
kind: "section"
citation: "21 U.S.C. § 1036"
title: "21"
title_heading: "Food and Drugs"
number: "1036"
heading: "Pasteurization and labeling of egg products at official plants"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/21/1036"
units:
  - "Chapter 15 — Egg Products Inspection"
---

# §1036. Pasteurization and labeling of egg products at official plants

- (a) **Contents of label—** [Egg products](/usc/21/1033.md?p=f) inspected at any [official plant](/usc/21/1033.md?p=q) under the authority of this chapter and found to be not [adulterated](/usc/21/1033.md?p=a) shall be pasteurized before they leave the [official plant](/usc/21/1033.md?p=q), except as otherwise permitted by regulations of the [Secretary](/usc/21/1033.md?p=x), and shall at the time they leave the [official plant](/usc/21/1033.md?p=q), bear in distinctly legible form on their [shipping containers](/usc/21/1033.md?p=d-2) or [immediate containers](/usc/21/1033.md?p=d-1), or both, when required by regulations of the [Secretary](/usc/21/1033.md?p=x), the [official inspection legend](/usc/21/1033.md?p=o) and [official plant](/usc/21/1033.md?p=q) number, of the [plant](/usc/21/1033.md?p=v) where the products were processed, and such other information as the [Secretary](/usc/21/1033.md?p=x) may require by regulations to describe the products adequately and to assure that they will not have false or misleading labeling.
- (b) **False or misleading or use of nonapproved labeling or containers; determination by Secretary; procedures applicable; appeal—** No labeling or [container](/usc/21/1033.md?p=d) shall be used for [egg products](/usc/21/1033.md?p=f) at [official plants](/usc/21/1033.md?p=q) if it is false or misleading or has not been approved as required by the regulations of the [Secretary](/usc/21/1033.md?p=x). If the [Secretary](/usc/21/1033.md?p=x) has reason to believe that any labeling or the size or form of any [container](/usc/21/1033.md?p=d) in use or proposed for use with respect to [egg products](/usc/21/1033.md?p=f) at any [official plant](/usc/21/1033.md?p=q) is false or misleading in any particular, he may direct that such use be withheld unless the labeling or [container](/usc/21/1033.md?p=d) is modified in such manner as he may prescribe so that it will not be false or misleading. If the [person](/usc/21/1033.md?p=t) using or proposing to use the labeling or [container](/usc/21/1033.md?p=d) does not accept the determination of the [Secretary](/usc/21/1033.md?p=x), such [person](/usc/21/1033.md?p=t) may request a hearing, but the use of the labeling or [container](/usc/21/1033.md?p=d) shall, if the [Secretary](/usc/21/1033.md?p=x) so directs, be withheld pending hearing and final determination by the [Secretary](/usc/21/1033.md?p=x). Any such determination by the [Secretary](/usc/21/1033.md?p=x) shall be conclusive unless, within thirty days after receipt of notice of such final determination, the [person](/usc/21/1033.md?p=t) adversely affected thereby appeals to the [United States](/usc/21/1033.md?p=z) court of appeals for the circuit in which such [person](/usc/21/1033.md?p=t) has its principal place of business or to the [United States](/usc/21/1033.md?p=z) Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. The provisions of [section 194 of title 7](/usc/7/194.md),[^1] shall be applicable to appeals taken under this section.

## Footnotes

[^1]: So in original. The comma probably should not appear.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 91–597, § 7, Dec. 29, 1970, 84 Stat. 1625.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

This chapter, referred to in subsec. (a), 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.