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Front page news across most of the nationals today - battery farm eggs being sold as free range.

In a nut egg shell a company imported millions of cheap eggs from Europe and resold them as free range, at a premium price of course, to major supermarkets such as Tesco, Morrisons and Sainsbury’s. The Scotsman reports up to 30 million eggs could have been sold in the scam until a ‘whistle blower’ infomed the authorities.

“The British Egg Industry Council (BEIC) said in a statement that it was “deeply concerned” about Defra’s allegations of irregularities in egg labelling and that it fully supported the prosecution of anyone found infringing the egg marketing regulations. It has asked Defra for full details but said these had not been forthcoming.

The statement said: “There is no suggestion of any public health risk arising from the allegations and consumers should continue to look for the British lion mark on the egg box and eggshell to ensure they are buying eggs produced to the highest standards.” Guardian