Free range eggs can be put back on the shelves in Liverpool today as restrictions were relaxed. Measures which were introduced to curb bird flu cases which meant all chickens had to be kept indoors have been dropped.
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has announced the mandatory housing course of action, which was introduced in late November 2021 following an outbreak of avian flu, will now be scrapped. Hens are allowed back outside meaning that free-range labelling can return to shelves.
Since March, the eggs have been classified as “barn eggs” in supermarkets due to the length of time birds had been kept inside. Free-range eggs come from hens that have unlimited outdoors access during the daytime.
