Free range eggs may have to be renamed because of bird flu restrictions
by Rebecca Smithers Consumer affairs correspondent from Environment | The Guardian on (#2A6C3)
Ordered indoors after flu outbreaks, hens are in danger of losing free range status if not allowed outside by end of February
UK egg producers have warned that the future of the premium free range sector is at risk should the eggs lose their prized status because of the ongoing threat of bird flu.
Flocks of free range hens are being housed indoors because of the bird flu outbreak and if they are unable to go back outside by the end of February the eggs will be downgraded to "barn produced", the British Egg Industry Council (BEIC) has said.
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