Eggs: Imports

(asked on 11th March 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they have any plans to permit the sale of eggs and egg products from non-EU countries produced in barren battery cages; and if such sales are permitted, what assessment they have made of the impact on eggs produced in the UK to different welfare standards.


This question was answered on 25th March 2019

The Government is proud of this country’s high standards of food safety and animal welfare, including for farm animals.

In the UK and EU, barren battery cages for commercial production of eggs have been banned since 2012.

Once we have left the EU there will be an opportunity to consider further our position towards these imports.

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