威斯康星州逾40万枚和解鸡蛋送抵食物银行：三家蛋企被指合谋抬价，威州共将收到约200万枚
威斯康星州总检察长 Josh Kaul 11月12日宣布，超过40万枚鸡蛋本周已送抵威斯康星州各地的食物银行和社区组织，这是该州在一宗鸡蛋价格操纵和解案中将收到的约200万枚鸡蛋的第一批。首批鸡蛋11月10日以42个托盘送抵 Feeding America Eastern Wisconsin 位于威斯康星州 Appleton 和 Milwaukee 的网点，后续批次将在未来几周陆续发往全州各地组织。
这批鸡蛋来自今年6月30日达成的一项多州和解：美国司法部与包括威斯康星州在内的17个州的总检察长指控，Cal-Maine Foods、Versova（经营 Centrum Valley Farms）与 Hickman's Egg Ranch 三家大型蛋企在2022年6月至2025年3月间秘密协调，合谋影响鸡蛋价格资讯机构 Urner Barry 发布的每日蛋价报价，人为抬高蛋价。和解要求三家公司共缴纳330万美元，并捐出5,300万枚鸡蛋，供全国各地的食物银行和非营利组织分发，费用由公司承担，鸡蛋须符合食品安全与监管标准。
Kaul 在声明中说，威斯康星州居民不应该因为价格串通而多付日常食品的钱。按和解条款，三家公司须停止被指控的协调行为、设立反垄断合规制度，并指定内部合规责任人；三家公司在这次和解中未承认有不当行为。鸡蛋价格2025年一度涨至历史高位，这宗和解被视为对蛋价操纵指控的阶段性处理。
威斯康星州司法部表示，运往该州的其余鸡蛋将在未来几周内分批交付，全州更多食物银行和社区组织将陆续收到。
（来源：威斯康星州司法部）
More Than 400,000 Settlement Eggs Reach Wisconsin Food Banks: Three Egg Producers Accused of Colluding to Raise Prices, State to Receive About 2 Million Eggs
Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul announced on November 12 that more than 400,000 eggs had been delivered this week to food banks and community organizations across Wisconsin, the first shipment of the roughly 2 million eggs the state is to receive under a settlement in an egg price-fixing case. The first eggs arrived on November 10, 42 pallets delivered to Feeding America Eastern Wisconsin locations in Appleton and Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with further shipments planned for organizations across the state in the coming weeks.
The eggs come from a multistate settlement announced on June 30: the U.S. Department of Justice and the attorneys general of 17 states, including Wisconsin, accused three major egg producers, Cal-Maine Foods, Versova, which manages Centrum Valley Farms, and Hickman's Egg Ranch, of secretly coordinating between June 2022 and March 2025 to influence the daily egg price quotations published by Urner Barry and artificially raise egg prices. Under the settlement, the three companies will pay a combined $3.3 million and donate 53 million eggs to food banks and nonprofit organizations nationwide, provided at the companies' expense and required to meet all food safety and regulatory standards.
Kaul said in the announcement that Wisconsinites should not have to pay higher grocery bills because of collusion on prices. The settlement also requires the companies to stop the alleged coordination, adopt antitrust compliance programs and designate internal antitrust compliance officers; none of the companies admitted wrongdoing under the settlements. Egg prices soared to record highs in 2025, and the settlement marks a resolution of the price-manipulation allegations.
The Wisconsin Department of Justice said the remaining eggs designated for Wisconsin, about 2 million in total, will be delivered in batches over the coming weeks to food banks and community organizations throughout the state.
(Source: Wisconsin Department of Justice)
来源：威斯康星州司法部
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图片来源：图：一盒鸡蛋（资料图）。Krzysztof Golik 摄，CC BY-SA 4.0 授权，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / Photo: A carton of eggs (file photo). Photo by Krzysztof Golik, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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