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Article: Fraud of battery eggs labelled free range.
- Article from:
- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- November 16, 2006
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MILLIONS of factory farm eggs may have been sold as free range, it emerged yesterday.
Government inspectors have uncovered a massive suspected fraud involving mislabelling.
The food and farming department Defra has ordered supermarkets and industry chiefs to carry out checks on their eggs.
The news will anger and alarm consumers who try to avoid battery eggs because of the way they are produced, with hens By Consumer Affairs Correspondent crammed together in cages without even enough room to turn around or flap their wings easily.
Selling battery eggs as free range is a breach of the Egg Marketing Regulations, and is a criminal offence carrying fines.
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