Humane Farm Animal Care is a nonprofit certification organization based in USA, operating internationally and dedicated to animal welfare. Their certification program is called the Certified Humane® program 

For egg-laying hens, the organization is completely against the caged system of production and certifies Cage -Free, Free Range and Pasture-Raised production as per their standards. 

 

How to Know If Eggs Are Truly Certified Pasture-Raised

 

This part is important.

 

Certified Humane does not use a separate logo for Cage-Free, Free-Range, and Pasture-Raised standards. So the same Certified Humane® logo may appear on all three types of products.

 

However, certified producers are not allowed to mislead customers in their packaging. A certified cage-free or free-range producer cannot simply label their eggs as pasture-raised. The label must match the production system approved under the certification. 

So how do you know whether a product is truly Pasture-Raised?

 

Look for 2 things on the packaging:

 

1. Logo –  Certified Humane®  
2. Text –  “Pasture-Raised”