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Utah adopts cage-free law with 2025 start date

By News Desk on March 23, 2021

Utah is the eighth state to require that egg-laying hens be kept in cage-free systems by 2025. Gov. Spencer J. Cox signed Senate Bill 147 into law on March 17.

Earlier it passed 25-2 in…
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Attendees hustle in and out of the trade show floor at the 2019 Food Safety Summit. Photo by Dan Flynn

It’s no simple process to become a food safety ‘thought leader’

By Dan Flynn on May 9, 2019

CHICAGO — Oscar Garrison, senior vice president of food safety regulatory affairs for United Egg Producers, is one of the speakers at this week’s Food Safety Summit who is ending the week as a “thought…
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FDA allows more time for comments on ‘healthy’ food labels

By Coral Beach on January 6, 2017

Four months wasn’t long enough for some in the food industry to figure out how they want the FDA to define “healthy” for use on food labels, so the agency has extended the comment deadline…
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Human Food Safety Not Likely Threatened By Costly Avian Flu

By Dan Flynn on July 10, 2015

The highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5 epidemic spread to domestic poultry by migratory birds may have burned out without getting anywhere near the human food supply, which was said to be an extremely low…
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Senators Aim to Add National Egg Standards to Farm Bill

By Helena Bottemiller on June 13, 2012

A bipartisan group of senators is hoping to add what would be the first federal standards for livestock housing and welfare to the Farm Bill, which the upper chamber is set to begin debating today.
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Livestock Groups, Egg Industry at Odds Over HSUS Deal

By Helena Bottemiller on January 2, 2012

Major livestock groups are urging Congress to reject the historic deal struck between the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) and the United Egg Producers (UEP) on egg production, but egg producers are not…

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Some See Cage Accord as a Good Start

By Amy Halloran on July 25, 2011

The recent deal between the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) and the United Egg Producers (UEP), more commonly known as adversaries, to improve egg-laying hens’ living conditions struck many as surprising, for many…

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Who Really Benefits from the Egg Industry Deal?

By Michele Simon on July 12, 2011

Last week, the Humane Society of the United States held an unusual press conference. The group announced an agreement with its long-time adversary, the United Egg Producers, to jointly seek federal legislation that would improve…
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