The mission of the Egg Quality Program is to ensure that the eggs sold to Texas consumers meet TDA’s quality standards. 

    The Egg Quality Program:
        - Inspects eggs at packing plants, distribution centers, and retail outlets.
        - Licenses people and businesses that participate in the Texas egg industry.

Apply for an Egg License

Instructions

Who needs an Egg License from TDA? more info 

• Egg Dealer-Wholesaler
  A person engaged in the business of buying eggs from producers or other persons on his own account and selling or transferring eggs to other dealer-wholesalers, processors, retailers or other persons and consumers. A dealer-wholesaler further means a person engaged in producing eggs from his own flock and disposing of any portion of this production on a graded basis.

• Egg Processor
  A person who operates a plant for the purpose of breaking eggs for freezing, drying or commercial food manufacturing.

• Egg Broker
  A person who never assumes ownership or possession of eggs, nor changes the grade or pack of eggs, but is engaged in the business of acting as agent, for a fee or commission, in the sale or transfer of eggs between producers, or dealer-wholesalers as sellers and dealer-wholesalers, processors or retailers as buyers.