---
kind: "section"
citation: "21 U.S.C. § 1039"
title: "21"
title_heading: "Food and Drugs"
number: "1039"
heading: "Eggs and egg products not intended for use as human food; inspection; denaturing or otherwise identifying"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/21/1039"
units:
  - "Chapter 15 — Egg Products Inspection"
---

# §1039. Eggs and egg products not intended for use as human food; inspection; denaturing or otherwise identifying


[Inspection](/usc/21/1033.md?p=j) shall not be provided under this chapter at any [plant](/usc/21/1033.md?p=v) for the [processing](/usc/21/1033.md?p=w) of any [egg products](/usc/21/1033.md?p=f) which are not intended for use as human food, but such articles, prior to their offer for sale or transportation in [commerce](/usc/21/1033.md?p=c), shall be denatured or otherwise identified as prescribed by regulations of the [Secretary](/usc/21/1033.md?p=x) to deter their use for human food. No [person](/usc/21/1033.md?p=t) shall buy, sell, or transport or offer to buy or sell, or offer or receive for transportation, in [commerce](/usc/21/1033.md?p=c), any [restricted eggs](/usc/21/1033.md?p=g-8) or [egg products](/usc/21/1033.md?p=f) which are not intended for use as human food unless they are denatured or otherwise identified as required by the regulations of the [Secretary](/usc/21/1033.md?p=x).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 91–597, § 10, Dec. 29, 1970, 84 Stat. 1627.)

## 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.