Lowering Egg Prices Act of 2025
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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.
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
- Introduced in Senate Formatted Text PDF Formatted XML
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 3423: Lowering Egg Prices Act of 2025. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-3423/
"S. 3423: Lowering Egg Prices Act of 2025." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-3423/.
S. 3423, 119th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-3423/.
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