Attorney General Josh Kaul today is announcing that over 400,000 eggs have been delivered to Wisconsin food banks and community organizations this week, marking the first shipments of approximately two million eggs secured for Wisconsin through a multistate settlement with three major egg producers for allegedly colluding behind the scenes to raise prices.
“Wisconsinites shouldn’t have to pay higher grocery bills because of collusion on prices,” said AG Kaul. “I’m glad this settlement will be helping put food on the table for Wisconsin families.”
On Tuesday, 42 pallets of eggs were delivered to Feeding America Eastern Wisconsin locations in Appleton and Milwaukee, marking the first in a series of deliveries to food banks and community organizations across the state.
The settlement, announced in June, followed a multistate investigation by a coalition of 17 attorneys general and the U.S. Department of Justice (U.S. DOJ). The complaint asserted that Cal-Maine Foods, Versova/Centrum, and Hickman’s Egg Ranch allegedly illegally coordinated to influence a daily price index for eggs, which artificially increased prices for retailers throughout the country.
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