[2] One of the egg farms federal food safety officials traced the outbreak to was a Hillandale facility in Iowa.
[4] In June 2016, the Humane Society of the United States released an undercover video of a Hillandale facility in Turner, Maine depicting egg-laying hens in rusty small wire cages.
[6] In February 2020, there was a proposal by Maine representative Margaret O'Neil to require egg produces to follow cage free housing systems.
[8] To settle the lawsuit, Hillandale Farms agreed to donate 1.2 million eggs to New York food banks.
[9] In 2021, Hillandale Farms' accountant, Jonathan A. Weston, was indicted by a federal grand jury for embezzling $6.8 million between October 2005 and January 2019.