Quality Assurance
At Esbenshade Farms and Mills, we are committed to providing our customers with eggs that are fresh, pure, and safe. We do all that we can to assure that these priorities are paramount in everything that we do as a company and everything we produce as a farm.
Guaranteed Fresh
- Most of our inventory is turned within 48 hours. It is not uncommon to have eggs arriving at our customers within 24-30 hours after being laid.
- Esbenshade Farms has a coding system which allows us to easily track where and when the product was produced and packed.
Guaranteed Pure
- Esbenshade Farms participates in the Pennsylvania Egg Quality Assurance Program (PEQAP).
- All of our chicks are checked for salmonella
- The henhouse environment is regularly monitored for salmonella
- Both the processing facilities and the henhouses are inspected by third party inspectors on a regular basis.
- Esbenshade Farms makes full use of available technology to maintain quality:
- Electronic, computer-controlled crack detectors
- Blood detectors
- Dirt detectors
- The elements of an HAACP program are firmly in place and consistently implemented.