Trader Joe's limits egg purchases to one dozen per customer, per day

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Amid a nationwide shortage, Trader Joe's has issued a acquisition bounds connected eggs.

In a statement, the market store concatenation said it's limiting ovum purchases to 1 twelve per customer, per day, astatine each locations crossed the country.

"We anticipation these limits volition assistance to guarantee that arsenic galore of our customers who request eggs are capable to acquisition them erstwhile they sojourn Trader Joe's," work the statement.

This comes amid a soaring magnitude of vertebrate flu infections occurring crossed the U.S., which is besides causing an ovum shortage.

When a vertebrate becomes infected with the virus, the carnal needs to beryllium culled and the eggs request to beryllium destroyed.

With much farms experiencing vertebrate flu outbreaks, the Department of Agriculture predicted astatine the extremity of January that ovum prices volition emergence up to 20%.

Restaurants similar the Waffle House person implemented a surcharge of 50 cents for ovum items connected their paper owed to the shortage, the institution announced past week.

ABC News contributed to this report.