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Lowering Egg Prices Act of 2025 This bill permits unrefrigerated surplus eggs originally intended for hatching to be repurposed for use in pasteurized liquid egg products intended for consumption. Under current regulations, most eggs intended for consumption must be refrigerated within 36 hours of being laid. The bill would exempt from this requirement surplus broiler hatching eggs (eggs originally intended to be hatched and raised for meat) that are repurposed for sale to an egg breaker (a facility that sells liquid egg to food manufacturers). (Broiler hatching eggs are generally held at a warmer temperature than other eggs in order to facilitate incubation. Because these eggs are not refrigerated, current regulations prohibit the sale of any surplus broiler hatching eggs to egg breakers for use in liquid egg products. Liquid egg products distributed for consumption are separately required under current law to be pasteurized, or treated to destroy bacteria.) The bill also requires the Food and Drug Administration to revise the refrigeration requirement to permit surplus broiler hatching eggs held at temperatures suitable for hatching chicks to be sold to egg breakers for processing as liquid egg products.
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2025-03-18
Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
2025-03-18
Introduced in House
2025-03-18
Introduced in House
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119 HR 2222 IH: Lowering Egg Prices Act of 2025 U.S. House of Representatives 2025-03-18 text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. I 119th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 2222 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES March 18, 2025 Mr. Riley of New York (for himself, Mr. Johnson of South Dakota , Ms. McDonald Rivet , Mr. Harrigan , Mr. Wied , Mr. Harris of Maryland , Mr. Womack , Mr. Palmer , Mr. Lawler , Mr. Thanedar , Ms. Salinas , and Ms. McBride ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce A BILL To make inapplicable to surplus broiler hatching eggs certain regulations relating to shell eggs, and for other purposes. 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Lowering Egg Prices Act of 2025 . 2. Inapplicability of certain shell egg rule provisions to surplus broiler hatching eggs sold to egg breakers (a) Inapplicability of current rule Effective beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act, section 118.4(e) of title 21, Code of Federal Regulations (or successor regulations) shall not apply with respect to surplus broiler hatching eggs that are intended to be sold to an egg breaker for purposes of processing such eggs as liquid egg products subject to regulation under the Egg Products Inspection Act ( 21 U.S.C. 1031 et seq. ). (b) Revised rule required Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Commissioner of Food and Drugs, and in consultation with the Secretary of Agriculture, shall issue a rule revising section 118.4 of title 21, Code of Federal Regulations (or successor regulations), to allow for surplus broiler hatching eggs to be held at such temperature and for such period of time at such temperature, so as to be compatible with conditions for hatching chicks and to allow for the sale of such eggs to egg breakers for the purposes described in subsection (a). (c) Definitions In this Act: (1) The terms egg and egg product have the meanings given such terms in section 4 of the Egg Products Inspection Act ( 21 U.S.C. 1033 ). (2) The term egg breaker means a facility in the commercial sector that processes eggs by breaking the eggs out of their shells and selling the resulting liquid egg product in bulk to food manufacturers. (3) The term broiler hatching egg means an egg intended for use by broiler hatcheries for the production of baby chicks. (4) The term broiler hatchery means a facility where fertilized eggs from broiler breeder chickens are incubated and hatched into day-old chicks, which are then raised on farms to produce meat as broiler chickens.
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