MAJOR retailers have pledged multi-million-pound support packages for the egg sector following widespread publicity of shortages on supermarket shelves. But despite price rises, it will be some time before the UK’s laying hen flock recovers from cutbacks in...
A QUARTER of the UK’s poultrymeat supply chain is signed up to rearing birds in line with Better Chicken Commitment (BCC) standards, according to new analysis. The Humane League, an animal rights charity, said its report showed the foodservice sector, restaurants and...
FRENCH RETAIL GIANT E.Leclerc has signed up to the European Chicken Commitment (ECC), the last of the country’s major supermarket chains to do so. It means that most chicken sold at retail in the country will come from birds produced to the ECC standard, where...
WAITROSE has said it will introduce mixed-weight packaging in its core British Blacktail egg line to improve supply. In the latest change to egg supply chains prompted by the coronavirus crisis, the retailer said it would sell more small eggs, providing up to half a...