Opal Foods
Opal Foods is a mid-tier U.S. egg producer headquartered in Neosho, Missouri, jointly owned by Rose Acre Farms (the nation's second-largest egg producer) and Weaver Eggs. Created in 2014 through the acquisition of Moark's Missouri and Colorado operations, Opal Foods produces conventional, cage-free, organic and nutritionally enhanced eggs, sold under licensed brands including Eggland's Best (as a franchisee) and Land O'Lakes All-Natural Brown Eggs. In 2024 it acquired Sparboe Farms' egg operations, placing the combined business about eighth among U.S. egg producers. Opal operates in Missouri, Colorado and Iowa, serves customers in 37 states, and sells in the western states through the ProEgg cooperative.
Score generated by AI agents based on publicly cited evidence and reviewed by the project maintainer. Not independently validated. Last assessed 2026-10-01. Score revised 2026-10-01: 49 → 43.
Score History
Timeline events are AI-curated from public reporting. Score trajectory is derived from documented events.
AGR Partners formed Opal Foods in May 2014 with minority partners Rose Acre Farms and Weaver Brothers to buy Land O'Lakes' Moark egg operations in Missouri and Colorado, starting with 5.6 million hens, all 250-plus Moark employees and an Eggland's Best franchise. Opal inherited a consolidated industry and a predecessor, Moark, that had settled a direct-purchaser price-fixing class action for $25 million in 2010. Little Opal-specific harm is documented in these years.
From summer 2018 Opal built 10 cage-free aviary and pullet houses at Roggen, Colorado, housing over 2.2 million cage-free birds by 2020, ahead of California's Proposition 12 and Colorado's 2020 cage-free law. Rose Acre and Weaver bought out AGR Partners in October 2020, making Opal wholly owned by two egg producers. OSHA cited the Roggen farm in 2021 for a serious equipment-guarding violation.
Avian flu reached U.S. commercial flocks in February 2022 and egg prices rose 150% within a year while production fell far less. Opal joined Cal-Maine, Hickman's and others in the ProEgg selling cooperative at the start of 2023, took a repeat OSHA citation at Roggen, bought Sparboe Farms in 2024 to become about eighth-largest, and saw its Weld County flocks culled repeatedly, including a July 2024 depopulation where underage workers were present and cullers caught H5N1.
News of the DOJ antitrust probe in March 2025 ended the price spike, with wholesale prices falling 62.7% in two weeks. Opal was named in a November 2025 consumer class action, centralized with other suits in February 2026 as In re Shell Eggs Antitrust Litigation; the DOJ's June 2026 case targeted three other producers and not Opal. By 2026 egg prices had collapsed on oversupply, while Eggland's Best, whose eggs Opal produces, faced labeling suits that a court let proceed.
Alternatives
Pasture-raised eggs from a certified B Corp that publishes details of its farm practices, a contrast to Opal's licensed Eggland's Best and Land O'Lakes branding, which does not tell shoppers who produced the eggs. Easy switch at most major grocery stores, though it costs a substantial premium over conventional eggs.
Eggs from small local producers bypass the industrial egg oligarchy — and the Urner Barry pricing benchmarks where Opal and peers allegedly coordinated prices. You can ask directly about farming practices and verify conditions. Easy switch in most metro areas via LocalHarvest; pricing is often comparable to premium store brands.
Dimensional Breakdown
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Dimension History
Timeline (45 events)
FTC Charges Eggland's Best with Deceptive Cholesterol Claims
The Federal Trade Commission charged Eggland's Best with falsely representing that its eggs will not increase consumers' serum cholesterol. Under the settlement, Eggland's agreed not to misrepresent the nutrient content of its eggs and to carry corrective labeling for one year.
FTC Fines Eggland's Best $100,000 for Continued Deceptive Claims
The FTC settled a follow-up case against Eggland's Best, imposing a $100,000 civil penalty for continuing to make deceptive cholesterol-related advertising claims after the 1994 consent order. Ads had stated eating Eggland's Best eggs would not increase serum cholesterol at all.
Moark Forms Joint Venture with Land O'Lakes
Moark, the Missouri egg business Hollis Paul Osborne started in 1954, formed a joint venture with Land O'Lakes Inc. (Moark LLC), turning a regional Missouri egg operation into part of a national cooperative's egg business. Land O'Lakes and the Osborne family's Osborne Investments initially held 50% each; Land O'Lakes raised its stake to 57.5% in 2003.
Better Business Bureau Rules UEP 'Animal Care Certified' Logo Misleading
The National Advertising Division of the Better Business Bureau ruled that the United Egg Producers' 'Animal Care Certified' logo was misleading to consumers and should be discontinued. UEP appealed; the National Advertising Review Board affirmed in May 2004. Most U.S. egg producers used the logo on cartons from 2002 to 2005 even though it allowed hens to be kept in battery cages.
Rose Acre Farms Takes Part in 2004-2008 Egg Supply Reduction Conspiracy
Rose Acre Farms, later a co-owner of Opal Foods, took part with Cal-Maine, United Egg Producers and United States Egg Marketers in a conspiracy to limit the U.S. egg supply and raise prices, according to the verdict of a federal jury in Illinois in November 2023, which found damages between 2004 and 2008. Methods included exporting eggs to cut domestic supply and limiting hen numbers through cage-space rules, early slaughter and flock reduction.
Land O'Lakes Takes Full Ownership of Moark
In January 2006 Land O'Lakes acquired the remaining 42.5% of MoArk from Osborne Investments for $71.0 million in cash, accelerating a 2007 ownership transfer built into the original joint venture agreement and making Moark a wholly owned subsidiary. Moark produced eggs under the Eggland's Best and Land O'Lakes brands.
UEP Pays $100,000 to Settle 16-State 'Animal Care Certified' False Advertising Claims
United Egg Producers paid $100,000 to settle claims by 16 state attorneys general and the District of Columbia attorney general that it engaged in false advertising with its 'Animal Care Certified' logo. The logo, which UEP had agreed with the FTC to stop using after March 31, 2006, appeared on cartons from hens kept in battery cages.
Land O'Lakes and Moark Settle Egg Price-Fixing Class Action for $25 Million
Land O'Lakes and its subsidiaries Moark LLC and Norco Ranch agreed to pay $25 million to settle antitrust claims by direct purchasers of shell eggs and egg products, and to provide information about meetings with other defendants. The suit alleged an industry-wide conspiracy to restrict supply through cage-space rules, molting schedules, hen reductions and exports. Moark's Missouri and Colorado operations later became Opal Foods.
Sparboe Farms Loses McDonald's and Target Accounts Over FDA Violations
After ABC News' 20/20 aired undercover Mercy for Animals footage showing animal cruelty and unsanitary conditions at Sparboe Farms facilities in Colorado, Iowa, and Minnesota, both McDonald's and Target severed ties with the nation's fifth-largest egg producer. The FDA simultaneously issued a company-wide warning letter citing 13 serious violations across five Sparboe locations.
Federal Agents Raid Sparboe Farms, Arrest 10 Workers
Homeland Security agents raided Sparboe Farms' Litchfield, Minnesota operation, arriving with a helicopter and State Patrol assistance. Ten workers were arrested on immigration-related charges. Authorities described the operation as part of a 'larger criminal investigation' but declined to provide further details.
Opal Foods Created to Acquire Moark's Midwest Operations
AGR Partners, a California-based private equity firm, formed Opal Foods with minority shareholders Rose Acre Farms and Weaver Brothers to acquire Land O'Lakes' Moark egg operations in Missouri and Colorado; no financial details were released. The new company started with 5.6 million laying hens, retained all of the more than 250 employees of Moark's Midwest operations, and became an Eggland's Best franchisee.
Rose Acre Farms Recalls 206 Million Eggs Over Salmonella Contamination
Rose Acre Farms, a co-owner of Opal Foods, voluntarily recalled 206,749,248 shell eggs from its Hyde County, North Carolina farm, the likely source of a Salmonella Braenderup outbreak. The CDC's final count was 45 people sickened in 10 states, with 11 hospitalizations. The eggs were sold under multiple brand names including Great Value, Crystal Farms and Food Lion.
Opal Foods Begins Cage-Free Infrastructure Build at Roggen
Opal Foods contracted Tecno Poultry Equipment to build 8 cage-free layer houses and 2 cage-free pullet houses at its Roggen, Colorado facility, each two-level house holding 205,000 birds, with the layer houses equipped with AS-540 aviary systems. Work started in summer 2018 and the last birds were housed in summer 2020, for a total of over 2.2 million cage-free birds.
California Passes Proposition 12 Requiring Cage-Free Eggs
California voters approved Proposition 12, which barred the sale in California of eggs from hens not housed under its standards, requiring cage-free housing by the end of 2021. The law applied to all producers selling into California regardless of their state, forcing industry-wide infrastructure changes; Opal's purchased Moark farms had been renovated to meet California's production standards.
Colorado Passes Cage-Free Egg Law Affecting Opal's Roggen Operations
Colorado enacted House Bill 1343, requiring all Colorado egg-laying hen housing to be converted to cage-free by 2025, a law egg producers helped write to head off a stricter ballot measure. About 5.5 million Colorado hens, mostly in Weld County, were then in caged housing. Opal Foods' Roggen, Colorado facility was directly affected, though the company had already begun its cage-free build-out there in 2018.
Rose Acre Farms and Weaver Eggs Buy Out AGR Partners' Stake
Rose Acre Farms and Weaver Eggs purchased AGR Partners' entire interest in Opal Foods, eliminating the private equity co-owner and consolidating ownership between the two egg producer families. Opal Foods remained an independent company with its own management team, but was now wholly owned by two established industry players.
OSHA Cites Opal's Roggen Farm for Serious Equipment-Guarding Violation
After a referral inspection opened in April 2021 under OSHA's amputation emphasis program, OSHA issued Opal Foods a serious citation under the farm field equipment guarding standard (29 CFR 1928.57) at its Roggen, Colorado farm. The proposed $13,653 penalty was reduced to $7,000 in an informal settlement.
Sparboe Farms Settles Minnesota Price-Gouging Lawsuit for Pandemic Egg Prices
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison announced a settlement with Sparboe Farms, which his office alleged had tripled its egg prices in March 2020 during the early COVID-19 pandemic, in violation of the state's emergency price-gouging order. Under the consent judgment, Sparboe agreed to donate 90,000 dozen eggs (more than 1 million eggs) to Minnesota nonprofits combating hunger and food insecurity.
HPAI Outbreak Begins in U.S. Commercial Poultry Flocks
The highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) outbreak began in U.S. commercial poultry in February 2022. By the end of December 2022, more than 43 million egg-laying hens had been lost to the disease or depopulation, U.S. egg inventories were 29% lower than at the start of the year, and wholesale shell-egg prices hit successive record highs, 267% higher in the week before Christmas than at the start of the year.
OSHA Issues Repeat Citation at Opal's Roggen Farm, Settled at $40,000
A March 2022 referral inspection at Roggen, again under the amputation emphasis program, led OSHA to issue two repeat citations under the same equipment-guarding standard Opal had been cited for in 2021, with a proposed penalty of $79,761. Opal contested, and a formal settlement reduced the penalty to $40,000; the case closed in October 2023.
Opal Joins Cal-Maine and Hickman's in ProEgg Selling Cooperative
Opal Foods became one of eight members of ProEgg, a Capper-Volstead farmer cooperative headquartered in Aurora, Colorado, alongside Cal-Maine Foods, Hickman's Egg Ranch, Oakdell Egg Farms, Willamette Egg Farms, Central Valley Eggs, Colorado Egg and Ritewood. Starting in 2023 the cooperative aggregates members' eggs and sells them to retail and foodservice customers in 13 western states, conducting sales and pricing for its members.
Record Egg Profits Prompt Accusations of Price Gouging
The average price of a dozen eggs jumped from $1.79 in December 2021 to $4.25 in December 2022. Farm Action told the FTC the 138% hike appeared to stem from a collusive scheme among industry leaders, not just inflation and the avian flu. Cal-Maine's gross profit rose about 10-fold, from $50.4 million to $535.3 million, across comparable 26-week periods of 2021 and 2022, while it sold more eggs than a year earlier.
Federal Jury Finds Rose Acre Farms Liable for 2004-2008 Price-Fixing
A federal jury in Illinois found Cal-Maine, Rose Acre Farms, United Egg Producers and United States Egg Marketers liable for conspiring to limit egg supply and raise prices, with damages found for 2004 to 2008. The jury awarded $17.7 million in damages, automatically trebled to over $53 million under federal antitrust law. The conspiracy, in which Opal co-owner Rose Acre took part, used exports and limits on hen numbers through cage space, early slaughter and flock reduction. Rose Acre said it would explore post-trial relief and appeal.
Opal Foods Acquires Sparboe Farms Egg Operations
Opal Foods acquired the egg operations of Sparboe Farms, the Litchfield, Minnesota producer that began in 1954 as a chick distributor and became a long-time McDonald's supplier. Both companies were among the 25 highest-volume U.S. egg producers in 2023, and the deal placed the combined business in eighth place nationally.
Eggland's Best Sued Over False Saturated Fat Claims
A class action lawsuit filed in Chicago alleged that Eggland's Best falsely claims its eggs contain '25% less saturated fat than regular eggs.' Independent testing by Anresco Laboratories found Eggland's Best eggs actually contain 2.84 grams of saturated fat per serving, nearly triple the 1 gram claimed and almost double the 1.5 grams in regular eggs. Opal Foods is a franchisee selling under this brand.
Organic Consumers Association Sues Eggland's Best for Misleading Animal Welfare and Recyclability Claims
The Organic Consumers Association filed suit against Eggland's Best in DC Superior Court, alleging deceptive marketing on three fronts: claiming eggs from caged hens are produced 'humanely,' marketing polystyrene cartons as 'recyclable' when DC does not accept polystyrene for recycling, and misrepresenting nutritional content including cholesterol and calorie counts.
Avian Flu Outbreak Hits Opal Foods' Roggen Colorado Facility
An HPAI outbreak struck Opal Foods' commercial egg-laying operation in Roggen, Colorado in July 2024, requiring the depopulation of 1.8 million hens. Opal vice president Ted Greidanus said the site held just under 2 million birds, and the company paid over $10 million to sanitize the facility. A second outbreak followed at Opal's Neosho, Missouri operation in January 2025.
Nine Poultry Workers Contract Avian Flu During Colorado Depopulation
CDC and Colorado health officials confirmed nine human H5N1 avian influenza cases among contract workers culling poultry after two July 2024 outbreaks at large egg-layer farms in Weld County, Colorado. Of 663 workers, 109 reported symptoms and were tested; all nine confirmed cases had conjunctivitis and mild symptoms, and state teams distributed oseltamivir. Exposure risks included handling each live bird, inconsistent PPE use and extreme heat.
OSHA Inspects Opal Foods Roggen Facility Over Worker Safety
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration inspected Opal Foods' Roggen, Colorado facility and the nearby Morning Fresh Farms site in July and August 2024, after the avian flu outbreaks. Records obtained by Investigate Midwest show OSHA interviewed four contract labor companies, all of which denied using employees under 18, though Colorado health officials confirmed workers under 18 had been present at the depopulations based on self-reported survey data.
Avian Flu Strikes Opal Foods' Neosho Headquarters, 1.6 Million Hens Killed
Newton County, Missouri's first documented avian flu outbreak was confirmed at the Hathaway farm operated by Opal Foods near Neosho. Although only one house of 275,000 birds tested positive, all 1.6 million birds at the facility were euthanized as a precaution. USDA-overseen cleanup was expected to be complete by early 2026, allowing operations to resume; Opal said there would be no layoffs.
Opal's Colorado Farm Culled and Restarted Three Times Since 2022
Opal executive vice president Ted Greidanus said the company had spent $10 million to depopulate, clean, repopulate and restart its Weld County operation three times since the avian flu outbreak began in 2022. USDA had paid Opal over $23 million in indemnity, the 10th-highest payout in the program, and Opal used ventilation shutdown plus and CO2 to kill over two million chickens.
Farm Action Urges FTC and DOJ to Investigate Egg Price Collusion
Farm Action sent a letter to the FTC and DOJ urging investigation into skyrocketing egg prices, arguing that avian flu's actual impact on production was minimal and dominant producers, particularly Cal-Maine, leveraged the crisis for record profits. The letter cited wholesale prices of $6-8 per dozen and called for Section 6(b) investigations into pricing practices.
Opal Foods Appoints Tim Adams as New President
Opal Foods named Tim Adams as president. Adams joined the company in 2016 as director of operations and was promoted to chief operating officer in 2023. The change came weeks after a January 2025 avian flu outbreak at Opal's Neosho operation.
USDA Invests $1 Billion to Combat Avian Flu and Reduce Egg Prices
USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins announced a $1 billion five-part strategy to combat avian flu and lower egg prices: up to $500 million for biosecurity assessments and cost-sharing of fixes, up to $400 million in financial relief for affected farmers, up to $100 million for vaccine and therapeutic research, regulatory relief, and temporary imports. The money was in addition to existing indemnity payments for depopulated flocks.
Hunterbrook Investigation Reveals Egg Price Increases Disproportionate to Flock Losses
Hunterbrook Media's months-long investigation found that per-hen-loss price increases since 2022 were more than three times greater than during the 2015 HPAI outbreak, despite similar flock reduction rates. The investigation challenged the industry narrative that avian flu alone justified the price spikes, pointing to consolidation and coordinated pricing as contributing factors.
Food and Water Watch Publishes 'Rotten Egg Oligarchy' Report
Food and Water Watch released a report titled 'The Economic Cost of Food Monopolies: The Rotten Egg Oligarchy' documenting how egg prices rose 150% from January 2022 to January 2023 while monthly production never fell more than 7%. The report highlighted that Cal-Maine earned $1 billion in windfall profits in FY2023 without experiencing a single flock outbreak.
DOJ Antitrust Division Investigating Major Egg Producers
The Justice Department's Antitrust Division opened an investigation into whether major egg producers, including Cal-Maine Foods and Rose Acre Farms, were sharing supply and pricing information in ways that contributed to soaring prices, according to sources cited by ABC News and Politico after Capitol Forum first reported the probe on March 6. The investigation was in early stages and would not necessarily lead to legal action.
Egg Prices Drop 62.7% Within Two Weeks of DOJ Investigation News
Wholesale prices for a dozen large white eggs fell from $8.12 on March 5 to $3.03 on March 19, a 62.7% drop in the two weeks after news of the DOJ antitrust investigation broke. Senators Warren and Banks later asked the DOJ to consider whether the drop suggested egg producers had conspired to inflate prices.
Investigate Midwest Exposes Underage Worker Concerns at Opal Foods
Investigate Midwest reported that underage workers had in some cases been hired to kill poultry flocks and handle carcasses during avian flu depopulation, and that some workers lacked protective equipment. Opal Foods' July 2024 Roggen outbreak was one of two Colorado depopulations where Colorado health officials confirmed workers under 18 were present. Rose Acre Farms said it was not aware of any underage hiring at Opal; Opal did not respond to requests for comment.
Senators Warren and Banks Push DOJ to Deepen Egg Price Investigation
Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Jim Banks (R-Ind.) sent a bipartisan letter to DOJ Assistant Attorney General Gail Slater urging a deeper investigation into egg price manipulation. The senators asked whether the 62% price drop following the DOJ announcement reflected prior price-fixing, and requested data on the five largest producers' profits during the crisis period.
Consumer Class Action Names Opal Foods in Egg Price-Fixing Conspiracy
Consumers filed a class action (Habash v. Urner Barry Publications, No. 1:25-cv-14112) in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois against Urner Barry, Cal-Maine, Daybreak, Hillandale, Opal Foods and Rose Acre Farms, with United Egg Producers named as a co-conspirator. The suit alleges that since at least February 2022 the producers used Urner Barry (now Expana) to exchange competitively sensitive information and fix egg prices. It followed a November 6 suit by King Kullen Grocery in Indiana against other producers and Urner Barry.
Egg Price-Fixing Suits Centralized as In re Shell Eggs Antitrust Litigation
The Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation centralized direct and indirect purchaser suits alleging that major egg producers exploited avian flu and manipulated Urner Barry benchmark prices, sending them to Chief Judge James D. Peterson in the Western District of Wisconsin as MDL 3175. The panel said centralization would avoid duplicative discovery and inconsistent rulings on class certification. Responding defendants included Cal-Maine, Rose Acre, Daybreak, Hillandale, Versova, Urner Barry, Egg Clearinghouse and United Egg Producers.
Judge Lets Eggland's Best 'Free to Roam' Cage-Free Suit Proceed
Judge Franklin Valderrama of the Northern District of Illinois largely denied Eggland's Best's motion to dismiss Janecyk v. Eggland's Best, ruling that a reasonable consumer could read 'free to roam in a pleasant, natural environment' on its cage-free cartons as promising outdoor access, even though the eggs met state cage-free definitions. Opal produces Eggland's Best eggs as a franchisee.
DOJ Settles Urner Barry Manipulation Case With Three Producers; Opal Not Named
The Justice Department and 17 state attorneys general sued Cal-Maine, Hickman's and Versova for coordinating bids to inflate Urner Barry egg price quotations, and filed proposed settlements barring the conduct and requiring compliance programs and monitoring of cooperative meetings. Neither Opal Foods nor its co-owner Rose Acre Farms was named, closing the federal probe that had been reported in March 2025 without action against them.
USDA Forecasts 29% Drop in Retail Egg Prices for 2026
USDA's Economic Research Service reported retail egg prices 23.0% lower in August 2026 than a year earlier and forecast a 29.4% decline for 2026, citing fewer HPAI detections and enough replacement pullets to cover flock losses, after retail egg prices rose 32.2% in 2022 and 21.9% in 2025.
Evidence (49 citations)
D1: User Value Erosion
D2: Business Customer Exploitation
D3: Shareholder Extraction
D4: Lock-in & Switching Costs
D5: Twiddling & Algorithmic Opacity
D6: Dark Patterns
D7: Advertising & Monetization Pressure
D8: Competitive Conduct
D9: Labor & Governance
D10: Regulatory & Legal Posture
Scoring Log (7 entries)
Checked 81 items + prose. 27 verified, 40 corrected (21 date-only), 14 re-sourced, 0 removed. Invented: retail egg price '$5.10 in Jan 2023, up 135% from $2.17' (Food & Water Watch: $4.82, up 150%), repeated in timeline, narratives and era summary. Major fixes: King Kullen suit does not name Opal (Opal is in Habash v. Urner Barry); Rose Acre 'federal conviction' was a 2023 civil jury verdict; cited OSHA record is a 2022 repeat equipment-guarding citation, not a 2024 avian-flu inspection, contradicting prose that Opal was never fined; underage-hiring denial came from Rose Acre, not Opal; Tim Adams appointed Feb 2025 not 2026; Land O'Lakes held 50% of Moark in 2000, not 57.5%; Prop 12 cage-free deadline end-2021. Unsupported and trimmed: $166M Moark price, Moark use of ACC logo, 2.6M Sparboe hens, 98% of hens on 1M+ farms, Cal-Maine $252M dividends, $34,000 wage.
49→43. Since Feb 2026: egg suits centralized as In re Shell Eggs MDL 3175 with Opal a defendant (Feb 2026); court let Eggland's Best 'free to roam' cage-free suit proceed (Feb 27); DOJ + 17 states sued and settled with Cal-Maine, Hickman's, Versova over Urner Barry manipulation, not naming Opal or Rose Acre (Jun 30); retail egg prices collapsed (ERS: -23% YoY Aug 2026, -29.4% forecast for 2026). D1 5→4 (event: 2026 price collapse), D5 5→4 (event: DOJ case found manipulation by others, not Opal), D8 7→6 (event: DOJ probe closed without naming Opal; MDL allegations unproven), D9 5→6 (event: verified OSHA serious 2021 + repeat 2022 citations at Roggen, three Weld culls with VSD+), D3 5→4 (recalibration: no Opal-specific evidence of payouts; reinvestment), D4 4→3 (recalibration: near-zero consumer switching cost), D6 6→5 (recalibration: deceptive claims are franchisor-set, no action against Opal), D7 4→3 (recalibration: no own advertising; brand-claim issue counted in D6). D2, D10 unchanged. Co-owner Rose Acre's 2004-2008 verdict and predecessor Moark's 2010 settlement weighed only as ownership/inheritance context in D8. Eras: 'PE-Backed Launch' re-dated 2014-06-01→2014-05-09 (formation); 'Cage-Free Build-Out' kept; 'HPAI Price Crisis' re-dated 2022-01-01→2022-02-01 (HPAI outbreak); 'Antitrust Exposure' re-dated 2026-02-15→2025-03-07 (DOJ probe reported, price spike ends). Description corrected: Opal's own site lists Missouri, Colorado and Iowa (not Minnesota). Category flag: none.
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