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HUGE NEWS: @OrganicConsumer and @HandsomeBrkFrm Announce Settlement of Legal Actions Concerning Pasture-Raised Eggs. | HUGE NEWS: @OrganicConsumer and @HandsomeBrkFrm Announce Settlement of Legal Actions Concerning Pasture-Raised Eggs. | Read the Full Article
Handsome Brook Farm and OCA have resolved a consumer-protection action OCA filed against Handsome Brook in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia on August 29, 2016, concerning Handsome Brook Farm’s “Pasture Raised” egg labels.
The organizations have also resolved a lawsuit filed by Handsome Brook against OCA.
The OCA’s action alleged that some of Handsome Brook Farm’s eggs labeled as “Pasture Raised” were, in fact, from producers not engaged in pasture-raising hens, and that some farms within Handsome Brook’s own farm network did not live up to its internal standards for pasture-raising.
Handsome Brook acknowledges shortcomings identified by OCA, including limited out-of-network purchases of organic eggs from producers in late 2015 and early 2016 that did not meet its pasture-raising criteria.