GLICKMAN NAMES ALTERNATE TO AMERICAN EGG BOARD


                                            Release No. 0351.97

                                                               
                                 Alicia L. Ford (202) 720-8998 
                                                 aford@usda.gov
                                    Norma McDill (202) 720-8998
                                               nmcdill@usda.gov



GLICKMAN NAMES ALTERNATE TO AMERICAN EGG BOARD

     WASHINGTON, Oct. 10, 1997--Secretary of Agriculture Dan Glickman today named Peter Olson, Beverly
Hills, Calif., as an alternate member of the American Egg Board.  Olson will represent the western states--Arizona,
California, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington and Wyoming.

     Olson serves the remainder of a two-year term ending Dec. 31, 1997.

     The board administers an egg research and promotion program authorized by the Egg Research and Consumer
Information Act of 1974.  The U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Marketing Service, a marketing and
regulatory agency, reviews the program's budget, plans and projects to assure that it operates in the public interest.

     The program is funded entirely by a 10-cent per 30-dozen case assessment on eggs marketed by egg producers
with flocks of over 75,000 hens.

                                 
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