The B2B WATT Poultry is out with its 2023 special issue of the egg industry. It is a source of hard-to-find market data about the egg industry, just as high egg prices and shortages capture consumer attention. Information about the largest egg producers and predictions about cages in the future
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Nevada must rely upon surrounding states for cage-free eggs
With Gov. Stephen Sisolak’s signature on June 4, Nevada joined Utah, Michigan, Washington, Oregon, California, Massachusetts and Rhode Island, by mandating cage-free eggs.
There just one problem. There are no commercial egg producers in Nevada, nor are any likely to set up businesses there. Jerry Wilkins from Colorado’s Morning Fresh…
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Colorado makes egg producers remodel
Colorado is going with the more expensive, cage-free eggs, limiting the options on its menu for producers.
A bill signed July 1 by Colorado Gov. Jared Polis sets a 2025 deadline to convert all hen-housing in the state to cage free by 2025. It means Colorado will be joining the…
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Letter To The Editor: Egg association leader weighs in on cage-free question
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Dear Editor,
Food Safety News is a daily “must read” for me in representing the National Association of Egg Farms in producing eggs in conventional caged systems nationwide. I appreciate the insights into numerous food safety issues. A recent Letter to the Editor has a cage-free egg farmer claiming…
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Trump’s DOJ supports California over other egg-producing states
President Donald J. Trump’s Justice Department is siding with California over 12 egg-producing states that don’t want egg standards dictated by Sacramento.
Noel J. Francisco, the solicitor general of the United States, has put the Department of Justice (DOJ) on California’s side in the dispute by filing an amicus brief…
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CDC, FDA urge public to look for Gravel Ridge eggs; more states report illnesses
During the past three weeks public health officers confirmed another two dozen people with Salmonella Enteritidis infections in an outbreak traced to cage-free eggs from Gravel Ridge Farms.
Federal and state officials continue to express concern that consumers might have unused Gravel Ridge Farms eggs that have been recalled,…
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Gravel Ridge Farms recalls eggs for Salmonella risk after illnesses reported
A cage-free egg producer is recalling an unspecified number of eggs, regardless of date stamps, from grocery stores and restaurants because of potential contamination with Salmonella. Confirmed illnesses have been linked to the eggs.
The Food and Drug Administration posted the recall notice from Gravel Ridge Farms yesterday. The company’s…
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No big boom yet in egg industry ‘cage-free’ hen housing
Egg producers would have to triple the number of laying hens kept in so-called cage-free housing to make good on their promise to meet demands for restaurant and retail chains by 2025.
Only 16.8 percent of U.S. laying hens are currently in “cage-free” housing.
Egg producers do not appear to…
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Cage-free hens don’t improve egg food safety, nutrition levels
There’s no food safety argument to be made for cage-free eggs versus those from chickens in other types of housing, according to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit. Nor are cage-free eggs more nutritious.
In what animal activists see as a defeat, a three-judge appeals panel for…
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Hen housing tradeoffs: Food safety, workers and consumers
As it turns out, the food stores and restaurant chains promising to sell only cage-free eggs by some date in the future and egg producers have been doing their due diligence when it comes to the housing of laying hens. Recently released findings of the Laying Hen Housing Research Project…
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