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To help ease egg prices, NCC calls on FDA to modify policy

Photo by David B. Strickland To help increase the amount of egg product, and to ease the current egg price situation, the National Chicken Council has sent a petition to the FDA in an effort to ease prior surplus egg policy.

NCC asks Labor Department to keep contract chicken farmers as independent contractors

GAINESVILLE, Ga. — The United States Department of Labor has put forward a new regulation that would change titles for employees. Some employees could...

Farm Bill 2023 discussions will relate to money issues

COLLEGE STATION, Texas — Changes in the new farm bill will mostly be about money. That was the message Dr. Joe Outlaw, Agricultural and Food...

Congressional action averts railroad strike

GAINESVILLE, Ga. — The United States Congress has joined together from both sides of the aisle to avoid a railroad strike. The House of...

AFIA to FDA: Modernize policy to keep pace with animal nutrition

ARLINGTON, Va. — The American Feed Industry Association is urging the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM) to keep pace with...

NCC delivers comments on FSIS proposed salmonella framework

WASHINGTON — The National Chicken Council recently delivered public comments at a USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) virtual meeting about the agency’s...

FDA announcing new standards for ‘healthy’ foods

GAINESVILLE, Ga. — For years, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration had a definition of what foods were considered healthy, the existing definition dates...

USDA proposes new standards for organic poultry and livestock

GAINESVILLE, Ga. — The USDA has announced the Organic Livestock and Poultry Standards proposed rule in the Federal Register. The pending regulation demonstrated new...

USDA declares salmonella an adulterant

GAINESVILLE, Ga. — On July 29, the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service announced that they are making salmonella an adulterant. “Today’s announcement is an...

What you need to know about egg labels

GAINESVILLE, Ga. — According to uepcertified.com, the eggs that have labels on them indicate that they came from farms that follow the United Egg...

NCC: survey shows 81 percent want clearer labeling of plant-based ‘chicken’

WASHINGTON — The National Chicken Council today announced findings from a recent national survey of Americans regarding consumer attitudes about chicken and plant-based “chicken”...

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