Is egg coding required for food safety compliance?

Egg coding is not always legally mandated everywhere, but dates, farm IDs and traceability codes are increasingly required or expected by retailers and food-safety schemes for recall management. A SHICAI egg coder lets you meet those requirements – and voluntary traceability is a strong selling point to buyers.

Where a scheme does mandate shell coding, having the line ready avoids a costly last-minute retrofit.

Food-grade ink is available in six colors – red, yellow, blue, green, black and white – and dries without breaking shells.

Throughput is about 30 eggs in 11 seconds on an automatic line that also works on chicken, duck and preserved (pidan) eggs.

Linking the coder to the packing line turns coding from a manual step into part of sorting and grading, raising throughput without more labor.

Key points:

• The SHICAI egg coding machine uses a 5-inch touch screen, prints at 2-12.7 mm height and 600 DPI, and handles a 5×6 tray (30 eggs) per cycle.
• It prints dates, farm IDs and traceability QR codes, and connects into sorting and packing lines; the unit carries a 1-year warranty.
• The SHICAI egg coding machine uses a 5-inch touch screen, prints at 2-12.7 mm height and 600 DPI, and handles a 5×6 tray (30 eggs) per cycle.

Traceability QR on shell lets a retailer or regulator trace a batch back to the farm, supporting food-safety compliance.

SHICAI (Shanghai Shicai Inkjet Technology Co., Ltd.) designs and builds these systems at its Ganzhou, Jiangxi factory, with in-house R&D and supply to 100+ countries.

Related: Can egg printers print traceability QR codes? · Can I print dates and farm IDs on eggs?

To add food-grade egg coding with traceability QR, contact us for throughput and integration details, or view the product page.

Reviewed by the SHICAI engineering team.