How to Read Chicken Egg Carton Labels: Part 2

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Summary: Watch a naturalist from the Massachusetts Audubon Society's Drumlin Farm explain how to read chicken egg carton labels in this free online video.

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Tia Pinney Tia Pinney is a Teacher Naturalist and Adult Program Coordinator at Mass Audubon’s Drumlin Farm Wildlife Sanctuary in Lincoln, Massachusetts. She is involved ... read more

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How to Read Chicken Egg Carton Labels: Part 2

You can also get other information off of some egg boxes. This is a new labeling here done by the Poultry Association. This United Poultry Group that has this certification and that really is supposed to reassure you that your egg laying hens are well treated but it really has nothing to do with the chickens being free-ranged. They are not. They are still caged birds and what it means is they are guaranteeing that the birds have slightly more space within their cages and that is what that certification means. Again, this box has grade A large so it is a box of eggs that weigh 24 ounces and the same time of dating happens to be the exact same date. This is in plant number P1183 and there are not very plants within the country. So you can very easily find out. Most likely these two boxes of eggs were put into the box in the same egg processing facility. This is another box which does say things like farm fresh eggs from pure grain fed free running chickens and again, that is not a guarantee of how these chickens have knee kept. Free running is not a specific term. It is not certified. It means it can be meaningless and that is the problem with if you care about how your chickens are kept. This happens to be also labeled with the local producer, so that does tell you a lot more information. So if you are really concerned about where your eggs are from, so read your boxes. There are now several things required by the USDA about safe egg handling although any egg in the market today is going to be fine and egg nutrition. Here are the labels on the end of the box that gives you the plant and the date they should be sold by.