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Article: Store forced to import French free-range eggs
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- Yorkshire Post
- Article date:
- November 28, 2006
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Robert Benson
Agricultural Correspondent
A SUPERMARKET chain is forced to import French free-range eggs due
to a shortage of British supplies.
Somerfield said yesterday it could no longer source enough
domestically-produced free-range eggs to meet demand.
The shortage comes less than a fortnight after a Government
decision to investigate alleged mislabelling of eggs as some non-
free-range eggs may have been marked as free-range in an illegal
practice.
The investigation relates to one per cent of the three billion
free-range eggs produced each year in the UK - around 30 million eggs
- although this could turn out to be a conservative figure. These
have now been taken off all supermarket ...