Maryland Code, Agriculture § 4-301

(a) In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated.

(b) “Consumer” means any person who purchases or otherwise acquires shell eggs for household consumption.

(d) “Food service facility” means any person who operates a facility where eggs are used in the preparation of food and who does not distribute eggs to a food service facility owned by that person.

(e) “Packer” means any person who places shell eggs in the original case, carton, or container that is used to hold eggs for distribution or sale to a consumer.

(f) “Poultry” means any living domesticated bird.

(g) “Retailer” means any person who sells shell eggs to a consumer and who does not distribute eggs to a retail outlet owned by that person.

(h) “Shell eggs” means raw or treated poultry eggs that are still in the shell and intended for human consumption.

(i) “Treated egg” means a poultry egg that has been subjected to a process that alters the egg while still in the shell.