Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 3503 – Official quality grades and weight classes
The standards, grades, weight classes and tolerance for individual shell eggs adopted by the United States Department of Agriculture, Poultry Division of the Agricultural Marketing Service are adopted as the official standards, grades, weight classes and tolerance for this State. Such adopted standards apply to consumer grades only. Supplements to, and revisions of, the United States Department of Agriculture’s standards, grades, weight classes and tolerance shall serve to effect similar changes in the standards, grades, weight classes and tolerance for this State.
Terms Used In Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 3503
- Consumer: means any person who acquires eggs for consumption in the person's own household and not for resale. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 3501
- Eggs: means eggs in the shell that are the product of domesticated chickens. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 3501
- State: means the State of Delaware; and when applied to different parts of the United States, it includes the District of Columbia and the several territories and possessions of the United States. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
- United States: includes its territories and possessions and the District of Columbia. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
Official standards for quality for individual shell eggs are:
Grade AA;
Grade A;
Grade B;
Unclassified.
43 Del. Laws, c. 88, § ?2; 3 Del. C. 1953, § ?3503; 56 Del. Laws, c. 258, § ?1;