New rules extend marketing standards for free range eggs hit by avian flu restrictions
Producers of free range eggs will be allowed to continue to market their products as such even if their hens have restricted access to open-air runs because of influenza outbreaks following further changes to EU egg marketing standards. An initial amendment to the EU-wide standard from September 2017 allowed egg producers to continue to market […]
Egg-static about Co-Op deal
The family company, L J Fairburn and Son Limited, is ecstatic with a deal to supply all 77 Lincolnshire Co-op stores with Fairburn’s Lincolnshire Free Range Eggs. Fairburn’s are very proud to be going back to their roots, after a long history supplying co-operative societies. In the early 1960s Leslie James Fairburn supplied co-operative shops […]
ISA to Sponsor 2013 British Free Range Egg Awards
Now in their 8th year the awards are eagerly awaited and will be sponsored for the first time by ISA .The awards will be presented at the Free Range Conference at the National Motorcycle Museum on 27 November. Nomination requests are due to go out to packers and pullet rearers in June . Speaking about the awards Joice […]
MEP calls for skull & crossbones symbol to be stamped on illegal EU eggs
The Commissioner was attending a debate (15.3.11) on the Work Programme for 2012 and was told in no uncertain terms that the EU needs to get a grip on the serious problem of 83 million illegal eggs that will be produced on the very first day of 2012. Mr Agnew told the Commissioner: You will […]
