Cage-free hens don’t improve egg food safety, nutrition levels
Story Date: 3/2/2017

 

Source:Dan Flynn, FOOD SAFETY NEWS, 3/1/17

There’s no food safety argument to be made for cage-free eggs versus those from chickens in other types of housing, according to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit. Nor are cage-free eggs more nutritious. In what animal activists see as a defeat, a three-judge appeals panel for the 9th Circuit ruled on Feb. 27  in favor of the federal government’s top food safety agencies on a question of egg carton labeling.

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