Charlotte food bank receives 270,000 eggs as part of NC Attorney General’s settlement with producers

North Carolina Attorney General Jeff Jackson said Tuesday that a Charlotte food bank has received a large donation of eggs tied to an antitrust settlement. The Second Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina accepted 270,000 eggs that were provided as part of the agreement with three major egg producers.

The donation to the Charlotte organization follows earlier distributions connected to the same settlement; food banks in Raleigh and Winston-Salem were given eggs last month. Jackson framed the transfers as components of the broader settlement with the producers named in the antitrust action.

Officials at Second Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina confirmed they received the egg donation, which was delivered under the terms of the settlement. The arrangement directs product from the producers involved to local food assistance organizations rather than exclusively to monetary penalties.

The announcement makes clear that the settlement’s effects are being routed into community-level food banks, continuing a sequence of deliveries that began with the Raleigh and Winston-Salem distributions the prior month. Additional details about the overall settlement terms or further planned distributions were not provided in the announcement.