National Chicken Council

After recent unsatisfactory public meetings and a growing series of unanswered questions, the National Chicken Council requested a 90-day extension to the comment period for FSIS’ proposed Salmonella Framework. The Council wants more time to properly analyze the proposal and provide more meaningful comments.  ...

The National Chicken Council strongly urged USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service to withdraw its proposed rule, “Fair and Competitive Livestock and Poultry Markets. The group says the rule represents an impermissible attempt to make an end-run around established judicial precedent for requiring a showing of injury to competition to sue and win under Section 202 of the Packers and Stockyards Act.

The National Chicken Council developed the NCC Broiler Welfare Guidelines and Audit Checklist in 1999.  The goal was to help poultry producers show consumers that all of the birds were being treated with respect and properly cared for during their lives.   ...

Earlier this week, the National Chicken Council announced findings from a recent national survey of Americans regarding consumer attitudes about chicken and plant-based ‘chicken’ alternatives.  Survey participants included individuals who consume meat and animal products, along with flexitarians, vegetarians and vegans.  The results indicat...

When watching the Super Bowl this Sunday, many of use will do so with some wings. Americans are anticipated to consume 1.42 billion wings while watching the Cincinnati Bengals and Los Angeles Rams battle for the Lombardi Trophy. NCC spokesperson Tom Super said, “Like almost anything else you buy right now, wings might be a little more expensive, but they’ll be stocked.” Accord ...

On Wednesday, the National Chicken Council released its annual Chicken Wing Report estimating Americans will eat an all-time high of 1.38 billion wings during the Super Bowl weekend.  The figure is up 2%, or about 27 million wings, from 2018.  The rep...