{"id":409,"date":"2010-05-25T08:41:53","date_gmt":"2010-05-25T15:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/?p=409"},"modified":"2010-05-25T08:44:41","modified_gmt":"2010-05-25T15:44:41","slug":"yet-another-license-egg-handlers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/yet-another-license-egg-handlers\/","title":{"rendered":"Yet another license- Egg Handler’s"},"content":{"rendered":"

In order for eggs to be resold in Oregon they must be ‘handled’ based on the ODA regulations. On the mass of the eggs this makes some sense- if you the carton says ‘large’ you should have some assurance that you’re really getting a large dozen. I have not issue with this….my problem is that we are no a large producer that has several outlets for non-large eggs. Our older hens drop jumbos and our younger hens drop medium sized eggs. Unfortunately there are no provisions in the regulations for an ‘as-laid’ dozen. Nor is there a provision that says individual eggs can be any size as long as it adds up to a ‘large’ dozen. <\/p>\n

So what do we do with jumbo and medium eggs? These eggs have to go into the unlicensed carton. The ODA did offer a suggestion- if I was to label the carton ‘PEEWEE’ eggs then I could put any size egg into the carton as there is no restriction on the maximum size of an egg- just the minimum. Sounded good for a while- but we starting thinking about how many people actually will look inside a carton and determine what size the eggs really are. Selling direct we can talk, explain, somewhat rationalize what we do…but not from a grocery shelf. So back to large eggs. <\/p>\n

Check out the fancy new label! Here!<\/a><\/p>\n

Down side of all this is this pretty label costs about 19 cents a pop!! And, of course, grocery stores want lower prices- yet it costs a premium to package the eggs for them. All this started when the ODA was reading this blog – found out I was selling eggs to Scanlons and wrote us saying we needed a license. So it goes…. Does Scanlons care about a label? Do we? Nope. I know I have ranted about this before but Camus says it best – “Integrity has no need for rules!”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In order for eggs to be resold in Oregon they must be ‘handled’ based on the ODA regulations. On the mass of the eggs this makes some sense- if you the carton says ‘large’ you should have some assurance that you’re really getting a large dozen. I have not issue with this….my problem is that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[114,86],"class_list":["post-409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-egg-handlers-license","tag-oregon-department-of-agriculture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":417,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions\/417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}