WASHINGTON, D.C. —  Rep. Josh Riley (D-NY) introduced The Lowering Egg Prices Act with co-sponsors Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.), Pat Harrigan (R-NC) and Kristen McDonald Rivet (D-MI). This bipartisan bill will lower egg prices for consumers by cutting bureaucratic red tape that forces farmers to discard hundreds of millions of eggs each year. 

Federal regulations require farmers to refrigerate eggs immediately after they are laid. But that rule does not distinguish between table eggs (which are raw products that need to be refrigerated), and breaker eggs (which are pasteurized for use in everyday grocery products like salad dressing, cake mix and pasta).