Eggs Licensing

Egg handler license

Producer is required to have an egg handler license for the following:

• Selling or distributing eggs to consumers, retailers, cafes, bakeries, hospitals, schools, boarding houses or institutions.

Producer is not required to have an egg handler license when the following applies:

• Producer is selling and delivering their own eggs direct to an individual consumer (including farmers' market), but labeling is required.
• Producer sells only ungraded eggs to a dealer.

Retailer is required to have an egg handler license in the following situations:

• Retailer grades eggs.
• Retailer packages graded eggs in his own cartons.

Retailer is not required to have an egg handler license in the following situation:

• Retailer sells to the consumer, eggs that have been previously candled and graded by an egg handler in compliance with ORS 632.705 to 632.815.

Egg breakers license

Required for any person engaging in the commercial breaking of eggs for the purpose of recovering whites, yolks, or whole eggs for human food.

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Resources

• Broiler, Layer, or Turkey Hatching Eggs Commodity Movement Guidance
• Dry Eggshells Commodity Movement Guidance
• Eggs: State Laws and Regulations

• Indeible Egg Product (from premises with poultry)

  INEP from Premise With Poultry Commodity Movement Guidance

• Inedible Egg Product (from premises without poultry)

  INEP from Premise Without Poultry Commodity Movement Guidance

• Nest Run Shell Eggs

  Nest Run Shell Eggs Commodity Movement Guidance

• Non-pasteurized Liquid Egg

  Non-pasteurized Liquid Egg Commodity Movement Guidance

• Pasteurized Liquid Egg

  Pasteurized Liquid Egg Product Commodity Movement Guidance

• Shell Egg Producer Information

  Brief summary that will assist egg producers in understanding the rules and regulations for shell eggs.

• Shell Egg Retail Information

  Brief summary that will assist egg retailers in understanding the rules and regulations for shell eggs.

• Upland Game Bird Hatching Eggs Commodity Movement Guidance

• Washed and Sanitized Shell Egg (moving other than directly to market)

  Washed Sanitized Shell Eggs (other than directly to market) Commodity Movement Guidance

• Washed and Sanitized Shell Eggs (moving directly to market)

  Washed Sanitized Shell Eggs (directly to market) Commodity Movement Guidance

• Wet Eggshells

  Wet Eggshells Commodity Movement Guidance