WASHINGTON, July 26, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Consumer egg prices could double in many states if an amendment to the Egg Products Inspection Act isn't passed by Congress, egg farmers testified today in a hearing before the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry. 45,000 egg-industry jobs in 24 states could soon be at risk they said if this legislation isn't passed, allowing dozens of contradictory and unworkable state laws proscribing farm egg production standards to spring up instead. Without legislation (S.3239), many states could soon mandate laws that are "inconsistent, contradictory and ultimately unworkable," said egg farmer Greg Herbruck from Michigan. Five...
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