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But the passages in which "The Egg Code" tries to get serious are its weakest moments.

Ice Forecasters use a special code known as the "egg code" to indicate the ice conditions within each area shown.

Instead there are higher organic farming standards (e.g. Demeter or Bioland) that can not be expressed in the established egg code system.

Eggs are then silently moved to the other barn giving an egg code as if they were from organic production allowing for a higher price on the market.

Egg marking is a form of egg labeling that includes an egg code stamped on the egg itself.

Close-up of an ice chart showing the "egg codes" used to convey information about the thickness, type and distribution of ice in frozen waters.

The Egg Code By Mike Heppner.

The frequent jumps between story lines are, presumably, the surface effect of Gloria's command of the message pathways - scrambling, as it were, the novel's egg code.

As there is more space on the carton there has been no tendency to create an egg code that is seen on the stamps used for egg marking.

Similarly, the use of two egg codes joined by the strip symbol is often used to depict strips and patches of close or very close ice of a thicker type.

Egg handling standards also emphasize food safety, requiring compliance to the Victorian Human Services Shell Egg Code and HACCP procedures.

The first number of the egg code defines four levels of production quality in decreasing order - the requirements on organic farming eggs extend on the requirements of free range eggs.

Several Egg Codes are shown in Figure 30 with a complete description of the Egg Code available in MANICE (1994).

The production standard of the eggs is visible on the mandatory egg marking where the EU egg code begins with 3 for caged chicken to 1 for free-range eggs and 0 for organic egg production.

The title of Mike Heppner's first novel, "The Egg Code," is a bit of jargon from the earth sciences: it refers to a matrix of numerical data used to record the size, concentration and stage of development of ice floes.

Somewhere inside "The Egg Code" (concealed beneath layers of irony, pastiche, inside joking and all the other lard of maximalist metafiction), there may be a perfectly good novella about unhappy families and the strange alliance of self-help and self-loathing.

These charts show the location and extent of the ice coverage in an area roughly the size of the Gulf of St. Lawrence at a specific date and time, and describe the various qualities of the ice in numerical terms inside an ovalshaped "key" called the egg code.