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These eggs were obtained as part of settlements with three national egg producers: Cal-Maine Foods, Centrum/Versova, and Hickman’s Egg Ranch. The settlements resolved antitrust claims alleging a conspiracy to inflate egg prices between 2022 and 2025."},{"type":"paragraph","text":"As of the announcement, over 1.7 million eggs had already been delivered to Texas food banks. An additional 5.322 million eggs are scheduled for delivery. The companies involved in the settlements will also pay a combined $3.3 million to the states that participated in the action. Seventeen food banks are participating in the distribution, which is being coordinated with Feeding Texas."},{"type":"heading","text":"Disagreement on settlement origin"},{"type":"paragraph","text":"The Henderson News and USA Today state that the settlements resolved antitrust claims brought by the Trump Administration’s Department of Justice and other state attorneys general. 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