---
kind: "section"
citation: "21 U.S.C. § 1040"
title: "21"
title_heading: "Food and Drugs"
number: "1040"
heading: "Recordkeeping requirements; persons required to maintain records; scope of disclosure; access to records"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/21/1040"
units:
  - "Chapter 15 — Egg Products Inspection"
---

# §1040. Recordkeeping requirements; persons required to maintain records; scope of disclosure; access to records


For the purpose of enforcing the provisions of this chapter and the regulations promulgated thereunder, all [persons](/usc/21/1033.md?p=t) engaged in the business of transporting, shipping, or receiving any [eggs](/usc/21/1033.md?p=g) or [egg products](/usc/21/1033.md?p=f) in [commerce](/usc/21/1033.md?p=c) or holding such articles so received, and all [egg handlers](/usc/21/1033.md?p=e), shall maintain such records showing, for such time and in such form and manner, as the [Secretary](/usc/21/1033.md?p=x) of Agriculture or the [Secretary](/usc/21/1033.md?p=x) of Health and Human Services may prescribe, to the extent that they are concerned therewith, the receipt, delivery, sale, movement, and disposition of all [eggs](/usc/21/1033.md?p=g) and [egg products](/usc/21/1033.md?p=f) handled by them, and shall, upon the request of a duly [authorized](/usc/21/360eee–1.md?p=a-6) representative of either of said [Secretaries](/usc/21/1033.md?p=x), permit him at reasonable times to have access to and to copy all such records.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 91–597, § 11, Dec. 29, 1970, 84 Stat. 1627; Pub. L. 96–88, title V, § 509(b), Oct. 17, 1979, 93 Stat. 695.)

## 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

### Change of Name

“Secretary of Health and Human Services” substituted in text for “Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare” pursuant to section 509(b) of Pub. L. 96–88, which is classified to section 3508(b) of Title 20, Education.

### 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.