HDR1012000150010505951500Egg Products                                           
HDR2012000150010505951500Egg Products Narrative                                 
                                                                                
Released May 5, 1995, by the Agricultural Statistics Board.  Data refer to      
inspection totals for March 1995.                                               
                                                                                
                         Shell Eggs Broken Up 13 Percent                        
                                                                                
Shell eggs broken totaled 127 million dozen during March 1995, up 13 percent    
from the 112 million dozen broken during March a year ago.  Regional percentage 
changes were: North Atlantic, up 5; North Central, up 20; South Atlantic, up 7; 
South Central, down 3; and Western, up 6.                                       
                                                                                
March 1995 contained 23 weekdays and four Saturdays, the same as March 1994.    
                                                                                
Inspected liquid egg products used in processing amounted to 249 million pounds 
during March 1995, up 20 percent from the 208 million processed a year ago.     
Ingredients added in processing totaled 10.2 million pounds, up 35 percent from 
a year ago.                                                                     
                                                                                
Inspected liquid egg production for immediate consumption and processing during 
March totaled 170 million pounds, up 20 percent from the March 1994 production  
of 141 million pounds.                                                          
                                                                                
Inspected frozen egg production during March, at 36.1 million pounds, was up    
5 percent from the 34.3 million pounds produced during March 1994.              
                                                                                
Inspected dried egg production during March was 12.2 million pounds, an increase
of 26 percent from a year ago.                                                  
                                                                                
Data presented in this report were compiled from inspection reports of the      
Agricultural Marketing Service.                                                 
                                                                                
For information call Tom Kruchten at (202) 690-4870.  Office hours are          
8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. ET.                                                      
                                                                                
Pou 2-5 (5-95)                                                                  
                                                                                
HDR2012000150010505951500Shell Eggs Broken                                      
               Shell Eggs Broken:  Federally Inspected, by Region               
                        and United States, March 1994-95                        
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                   :           :         Form in Which Broken         :         
                   :           :--------------------------------------:         
     Month and     :   Eggs    :             Edible Liquid            :Inedible 
      Region       :  Broken   :--------------------------------------: Liquid  
                   :           :  Whole  :  White  :  Yolk   : Total  :         
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                   :1,000 Dozen  ---------------- 1,000 Pounds ---------------- 
 March 1995        :                                                            
   N Atlantic      :   21,297    18,743     6,412     2,953    28,108     1,845 
   N Central       :   78,206    52,116    32,240    16,961   101,317     7,690 
   S Atlantic      :    9,291     4,962     4,730     2,253    11,945     1,022 
   S Central       :    9,370     5,452     3,819     2,059    11,330     1,276 
   West            :    8,702     6,691     2,691     1,189    10,571       656 
                   :                                                            
   US              :  126,866    87,964    49,892    25,415   163,271    12,489 
                   :                                                            
 March 1994        :                                                            
   N Atlantic      :   20,228    18,482     5,111     2,298    25,891     1,943 
   N Central       :   65,371    46,054    26,056    13,905    86,015     6,071 
   S Atlantic      :    8,649     4,701     4,302     1,931    10,934       960 
   S Central       :    9,641     6,226     3,652     1,979    11,857     1,059 
   West            :    8,195     6,177     2,365     1,407     9,949       668 
                   :                                                            
   US              :  112,084    81,640    41,486    21,520   144,646    10,701 
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HDR2012000150010505951500Inspected Liquid Eggs                                  
              Inspected Liquid Eggs:  Usage and Ingredients Added               
                 in Processing, United States, March 1994-95 1/                 
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      Month and     :  Whole  :  Whole  :         :  Yolk   :  Yolk   :         
        Item        :  Plain  :  Blends :  White  :  Plain  :  Blends :  Total  
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                    :                       1,000 Pounds                        
 March 1995         :                                                           
   Liquid Eggs      :  92,811    50,088    69,448    16,946    19,501   248,794 
   Ingredients Added:       0     8,030       163         0     1,988    10,181 
                    :                                                           
 March 1994         :                                                           
   Liquid Eggs      :  83,326    42,760    54,634    11,244    16,145   208,109 
   Ingredients Added:       0     5,805       153         0     1,597     7,555 
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            Inspected Product:  By Form as Distributed in Commerce,             
                       United States, March 1994-95 1/ 2/                       
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      Month and     :  Whole  :  Whole  :         :  Yolk   : Yolk    :         
        Item        :  Plain  :  Blends :  White  :  Plain  : Blends  :  Total  
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                    :                       1,000 Pounds                        
 March 1995         :                                                           
   Liquid           :                                                           
     For Immediate  :                                                           
      Consumption   :  30,995    31,892    13,026    1,135    6,601      83,649 
     For Processing :  38,947     8,200    24,552   10,528    3,757      85,984 
     Total          :  69,942    40,092    37,578   11,663   10,358     169,633 
                    :                                                           
   Frozen           :  13,901     9,948     4,446       50    7,732      36,077 
                    :                                                           
   Dried            :   2,323     2,182     3,769    2,340    1,542      12,156 
                    :                                                           
 March 1994         :                                                           
   Liquid           :                                                           
     For Immediate  :                                                           
      Consumption   :  28,750    22,762    12,597    1,163    8,996      74,268 
     For Processing :  32,500     6,965    19,866    5,805    1,759      66,895 
     Total          :  61,250    29,727    32,463    6,968   10,755     141,163 
                    :                                                           
   Frozen           :  14,521    10,648     3,694      693    4,728      34,284 
                    :                                                           
   Dried            :   1,999     2,627     2,309    1,573    1,159       9,667 
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 1/  Includes reinspections of egg products.                                    
 2/  Includes all non-egg ingredients added.                                    
HDR2012000150010505951500Egg Products Inspected                                 
       Egg Products Inspected:  Shell Eggs Broken and Products Produced,        
                  United States, October 1 - March 31, 1994-95                  
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                                         :                 Period               
                                         :--------------------------------------
                    Item                 :   Oct 1, 1993-    :   Oct 1, 1994-   
                                         :   Mar 31, 1994    :   Mar 31, 1995   
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                                         :              1,000 Dozen             
                                         :                                      
 Shell Eggs Broken                       :      651,673             720,538     
                                         :                                      
                                         :              1,000 Pounds            
 Edible Liquid from Shell Eggs Broken    :                                      
   Whole                                 :      468,282             505,609     
   White                                 :      242,887             277,062     
   Yolk                                  :      128,124             143,017     
                                         :                                      
   Total                                 :      839,293             925,688     
                                         :                                      
 Inedible Liquid from Shell Eggs Broken  :       60,843              69,804     
                                         :                                      
 During Processing                       :                                      
   Liquid Eggs Inspected 1/              :    1,238,637           1,390,807     
   Ingredients Added in Processing       :       39,600              47,071     
                                         :                                      
 Product Produced for Immediate          :                                      
  Consumption and Processing 1/ 2/       :                                      
   Liquid Product Produced               :                                      
     Whole Plain                         :      351,803             391,771     
     Whole Blends                        :      158,735             192,378     
     White                               :      180,774             201,240     
     Yolk Plain                          :       51,791              66,423     
     Yolk Blends                         :       54,388              60,473     
                                         :                                      
     Total                               :      797,491             912,285     
                                         :                                      
   Frozen Product Produced               :                                      
     Whole Plain                         :       95,478              87,560     
     Whole Blends                        :       59,367              63,125     
     White                               :       20,482              24,773     
     Yolk Plain                          :        2,847                 587     
     Yolk Blends                         :       35,010              38,699     
                                         :                                      
     Total                               :      213,184             214,744     
                                         :                                      
                                                                                
   Dried Product Produced                :                                      
     Whole Plain                         :       13,353              13,983     
     Whole Blends                        :       13,686              16,032     
     White                               :       17,373              22,767     
     Yolk Plain                          :       10,316              12,410     
     Yolk Blends                         :        7,031               9,244     
                                         :                                      
     Total                               :       61,759              74,436     
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 1/  Includes reinspections of egg products.                                    
 2/  Includes all non-egg ingredients added.                                    
                                                                                
HDR2012000150010505951500Reliability                                            
Data Sources:  Data for the "Egg Products" report are obtained from Grading     
               Volume Reports (Form PY-240) completed by inspectors of the      
Poultry Division, Grading Branch, Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS), USDA.   
AMS is responsible for administering a mandatory inspection program for egg     
products under the authority of the Egg Products Inspection Act of 1970.  The   
Act and its associated Regulations require that all commercial egg breaking and 
processing plants operate under continuous USDA supervision.  Reports are       
currently received from approximately 80 plants.  Plant management provides     
monthly volume data to the resident USDA inspector at the applicable plant.     
                                                                                
Procedures and Reliability:  AMS reviews plant data for accuracy and            
                             completeness and provides NASS a data file.  NASS  
reviews the data for unusual values.  The egg products estimates are based on a 
census of all commercial egg breaking and processing plants, therefore, there   
are no statistical estimation and sampling errors.                              
                                                                                
Liquid eggs transported from one official plant to another for reprocessing must
be reinspected by the USDA inspector at the receiving plant.  Since the volume  
is reported for each inspection performed, the total liquid eggs inspected may  
exceed the actual total of liquid eggs produced.                                
                                                                                
Data in the "Inspected Product:" table are finished products available for      
distribution in commerce.  The finished egg products (packaged for distribution)
may have been processed in a subsequent reporting period following the period in
which the eggs were reported as broken.  Therefore, the data may not be         
comparable in any given month.                                                  
                                                                                
Regional Listing:                                                               
                                                                                
North Atlantic = CT, ME, MA, NH, NJ, NY, PA, RI, VT.                            
North Central  = IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, OH, NE, ND, SD, WI.                
South Atlantic = DE, FL, GA, MD, NC, PR, SC, VA, WV.                            
South Central  = AL, AR, KY, LA, MS, OK, TN, TX.                                
West           = AK, AZ, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NM, NV, OR, UT, WA, WY.            
                                                                                
                                                                                
The next "Egg Products" report will be released at 3 p.m. ET on June 6, 1995.   
                                                                                
                                                                                
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