Supermarket giant Coles, is about to
launch its new 'free range' egg standard which allows its 'free range' egg suppliers to run their hens at a stocking
density of 10,000 hens per hectare, when the current maximum under the Model Code is accepted as 1500 per hectare.
Coles has been conducting on-farm
inspections to see if its supplier farms meet their new standards
(hard to imagine that anyone will fail!)
The new standard is expected to be
launched later this month following the withdrawl of the Australian
Egg Corporation's ill-fated Egg Standards Australia propposal which
sought to introduce a 20,000 stocking density. It will be interesting
to see how the new Coles standard is accepted by consumers (and the
ACCC) and any response from the other supermarket giant Woolworths.
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