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National Chicken Council petitions FDA to change egg rule
The National Chicken Council wants the Food and Drug Administration to change a rule it says would put millions of unused eggs back into the market.
Dr. Ashley Peterson says the council’s petition to FDA seeks to allow eggs the broiler industry doesn’t need to enter the breaker market, where eggs are pasteurized and processed for food ingredients. “Making products such as cake mixes or egg noodles or mayonaise, or other types of commodities like that.”
Peterson says good eggs are discarded by the broiler chicken industry if they are not needed for hatching. “We estimate that there could be about 360 million eggs per year and essentially, since 2009, we’ve been throwing that many eggs away, unfortunately, because of this FDA rule.”
The National Chicken Council has asked the FDA for regulatory discretion to allow the unrefrigerated eggs to enter the breaker egg market, where they can quickly take some market pressure off the layer egg supply. “I would say within a week or so, perhaps, because if we have eggs that are ready to go to the breakers, we’ve got breakers that are ready to use them.” Peterson says changing the FDA regulation would also eliminate the waste of unused hatching eggs.
The petition to allow unused broiler eggs in the breaker market can be found on the National Chicken Council website, here. Additional information about the proposal can be found here.
AUDIO: Dr. Ashley Peterson and Vice President Tom Super from the National Chicken Council discuss the petition to allow unused broiler eggs in the breaker market with Brownfield’s Larry Lee.
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