Thursday, March 12, 2026

NCC petitions FDA to amend rule and divert millions more eggs into the marketplace

By David B. Strickland - Poultry Times Editor dstrickland@poultrytimes.com

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WASHINGTON — To help get more eggs onto grocery store shelves, the National Chicken Council has sent a petition letter to the U.S. Food & Drug Administration urging the reversal or modification of regulations that require the broiler industry to dispose of what could be usable eggs. 

“With government risk assessments affirming their safety, and the fact that surplus broiler hatching eggs would be pasteurized (cooked), we respectfully request FDA to immediately exercise its enforcement discretion to allow. . .

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