(NAFB.com) – Representatives Josh Riley (D-NY), Dusty Johnson (R-SD), and others introduced “The Lowering Egg Prices Act.” The bipartisan bill would lower egg prices for consumers by cutting bureaucratic red tape that forces farmers to discard hundreds of millions of eggs each year. Federal regulations require farmers to refrigerate eggs immediately after they are laid. But that rule doesn’t distinguish between table eggs, which are raw products that need to be refrigerated, and breaker eggs, which are pasteurized for use in everyday grocery products like salad dressing, cake mix, and pasta. This has forced chicken farmers to throw away almost 400 million perfectly good eggs every year. The rule didn’t make sense when it was enacted and makes even less sense now when egg prices are too high. “The Lower Egg Prices Act undoes unnecessary regulations, puts hundreds of millions of eggs on the market, and lowers grocery bills,” says Riley.