Free-Range Fraud Could Now Involve 500 Million Eggs

Author: Gwyneth Rees

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Summary

A SCAM in which battery eggs from mainland Europe were passed off in Britain as free-range is more than fifteen times bigger than first thought.

In November it was revealed consumers were being duped into paying over the odds for what they wrongly believed to be free- range eggs.

Extract

Free-Range Fraud Could Now Involve 500 Million Eggs

At the time, investigators thought the swindle involved around 30million eggs.

But they now believe the figure is closer to 500million and ...