Egg Group Certification Deadline

WASHINGTON - Apr 21/04 - SNS -- Egg producer organizations which are not already USDA certified have until May 14 to request certification so they are eligible to nominate members and alternates to the American Egg Board.

USDA will seek nominations this summer from all USDA-certified egg producer groups to fill two-year terms of nine members and their alternates, whose terms expire at the end of 2004.

The Board administers an egg research and promotion program, authorized by the Egg Research and Consumer Information Act. The program is monitored by AMS, an agency within USDA’s marketing and regulatory mission area.

Organizations seeking certification should request information and an application from Sara Lutton, Poultry Programs, AMS, USDA, 1400 Independence Avenue, SW., Room 3932-S, STOP 0256, Washington, D.C. 20250, tel. (202) 720-0623, fax (202) 720-5631. Certified organizations will receive instructions pertaining to Board nomination procedures.