Title 7 — AgricultureRelease 119-73
§2701 Congressional findings and declaration of policy
Title 7 › Chapter CHAPTER 60— - EGG RESEARCH AND CONSUMER INFORMATION › § 2701
Summary
Allows a funded, organized program that collects fair fees to pay for research, education, and marketing to protect and grow markets for eggs, egg products, spent fowl, and related items. Eggs are a basic food made by many small producers, and these products move across state and national borders or affect that trade. Keeping current markets and creating new ones is important for farmers, processors, sellers, and the nation’s economy, but individual producers cannot carry out the needed work alone. The program must not control how many eggs individual producers make or limit their right to produce commercial eggs.
Full Legal Text
Title 7, §2701
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Eggs constitute one of the basic, natural foods in the diet. They are produced by many individual egg producers throughout the United States. Egg products, spent fowl, and products of spent fowl are derivatives of egg production. These products move in interstate and foreign commerce and those which do not move in such channels of commerce directly burden or affect interstate commerce of these products. The maintenance and expansion of existing markets and the development of new or improved markets and uses are vital to the welfare of egg producers and those concerned with marketing, using, and processing eggs as well as the general economy of the Nation. The production and marketing of these products by numerous individual egg producers have prevented the development and carrying out of adequate and coordinated programs of research and promotion necessary for the maintenance of markets and the development of new products of, and markets for, eggs, egg products, spent fowl, and products of spent fowl. Without an effective and coordinated method of assuring cooperative and collective action in providing for and financing such programs, individual egg producers are unable to provide, obtain, or carry out the research, consumer and producer information, and promotion necessary to maintain and improve markets for any or all of these products. It has long been recognized that it is in the public interest to provide an adequate, steady supply of fresh eggs readily available to the consumers of the Nation. Maintenance of markets and the development of new markets, both domestic and foreign, are essential to the egg industry if the consumers of eggs, egg products, spent fowl, or products of spent fowl are to be assured of an adequate, steady supply of such products. It is therefore declared to be the policy of the Congress and the purpose of this chapter that it is essential and in the public interest, through the exercise of the powers provided herein, to authorize and enable the establishment of an orderly procedure for the development and the financing through an adequate assessment, an effective and continuous coordinated program of research, consumer and producer education, and promotion designed to strengthen the egg industry’s position in the marketplace, and maintain and expand domestic and foreign markets and uses for eggs, egg products, spent fowl, and products of spent fowl of the United States. Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to mean, or provide for, control of production or otherwise limit the right of individual egg producers to produce commercial eggs.
Legislative History
Notes & Related Subsidiaries
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date
Pub. L. 93–428, § 21, Oct. 1, 1974, 88 Stat. 1179, provided that: “This Act [enacting this chapter and provisions set out as notes under this section] shall take effect upon enactment [Oct. 1, 1974]”.
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of 1993 Amendment Pub. L. 103–188, § 1, Dec. 14, 1993, 107 Stat. 2256, provided that: “This Act [amending section 2707, 2708, and 2711 of this title and enacting provisions set out as a note under section 2703 of this title] may be cited as the ‘Egg Research and Consumer Information Act
Amendments
of 1993’.”
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of 1988 Amendment Pub. L. 100–575, § 1, Oct. 31, 1988, 102 Stat. 2895, provided that: “This Act [amending section 2707 and 2712 of this title] may be cited as the ‘Egg Research and Consumer Information Act
Amendments
of 1988’.”
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of 1980 Amendment Pub. L. 96–276, § 1, June 17, 1980, 94 Stat. 541, provided: “That this Act [amending section 2707, 2708, and 2714 of this title and enacting provisions set out as a note under section 4a of this title] may be cited as the ‘Egg Research and Consumer Information Act
Amendments
of 1980’.”
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Pub. L. 93–428, § 1, Oct. 1, 1974, 88 Stat. 1171, provided: “That this Act [enacting this chapter and provisions set out as notes under this section] shall be known as the ‘Egg Research and Consumer Information Act’.” Separability Pub. L. 93–428, § 19, Oct. 1, 1974, 88 Stat. 1179, provided that: “If any provision of this Act [enacting this chapter and provisions set out as notes under this section] or the application thereof to any person or circumstances is held invalid, the validity of the remainder of the Act and of the application of such provision to other persons and circumstances shall not be affected thereby”.
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Citation
7 U.S.C. § 2701
Title 7 — Agriculture
Last Updated
Apr 6, 2026
Release point: 119-73