Our friends at the Food Alliance, a nonprofit organization that certifies farms, ranches and food handlers for sustainability, have just sent us this update:

Food Alliance has expanded its certification program for sustainable agriculture and food handling to include poultry and egg production. The new Food Alliance certification for poultry is available throughout North America to producers of chicken eggs as well as turkey and chicken meat.

The first company to earn Food Alliance certification for egg production and processing is Wilcox Family Farms, a fourth generation, family-run business headquartered in Roy, Washington with farms in Oregon and Washington. The company provides over 400,000 shell eggs (dozens) and 150,000 pounds of liquid eggs per week to grocery stores, bakeries and food service operations. The company’s organic shell eggs, organic liquid eggs, and cage-free brown eggs will now display the Food Alliance Certified label.

“My family’s company has a long history of working to protect the environment and benefit our community. Sustainability is a critical component of our business model,” says Andrew Wilcox, Director of Operations. “We look at certification as a way to be more transparent with our customers about how their food is produced. Food Alliance’s certification program is unique because they cover labor, animal welfare, and environmental issues. No other certification does all that. It really fits our values.”

To learn more about the organization's certifciation programs and other fine work go to: Food Alliance