Sentences with phrase «range egg producers»

In a separate development, free range egg producers are threatening to go to the ACCC if the Egg Corporation persists in allowing free range farmers to run as many as 20,000 laying birds per hectare, the equivalent of two birds a square metre.

The definition of free range eggs is also being questioned, with free range egg producers threatening to ask the ACCC to conduct a separate investigation into the industry.

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Ranging from a «5 - egg» to a «1 - egg» rating, the producer's score is dependent on the quality of hen laying housing conditions, compliance in meeting USDA expectations and organic standards, as well as the organization's transparency in releasing information surrounding their egg production practices.

Mr Westwood said the corporation - which represents about 400 commercial egg producers - repeatedly told free - range farmers that there was community support for the 20,000 hen per hectare limit during industry consultations about the proposed new definition of «free range» - despite knowing at the time that fewer than one in 10 people deemed it acceptable.

The free - range egg industry code limits producers to 1500 hens per hectare but there is no legally enforceable definition of free range.

The ACCC has produced this guide to help hen egg producers of all sizes understand their fair trading rights and obligations when promoting or selling free range eggs.

But she said the lack of any meaningful free range egg standard meant that «genuine» producers faced an uphill climb.

«Fifteen hundred hens is in line with the best animal welfare accreditation standards that Australia has, it set Queensland up and gave them an actual advantage over the rest of the states and could have offered an advantage for producers against the rest of the country, because they could offer genuine free range eggs to consumers.»

INDUSTRY DEFINITIONS & FINDINGS: HR 3798 Legislation, written and supported by both the United Egg Producers (UEP) and the Humane Society of the US (HSUS), and introduced in the last Congress, defines «Free Range» as: «(1) «Eggs from free - range hens» to indicate that the egg - laying hens from which the eggs or egg products were derived were, during egg production ----(A) not housed in caging devices; and (B) provided with outdoor access.&raqEgg Producers (UEP) and the Humane Society of the US (HSUS), and introduced in the last Congress, defines «Free Range» as: «(1) «Eggs from free - range hens» to indicate that the egg - laying hens from which the eggs or egg products were derived were, during egg production ----(A) not housed in caging devices; and (B) provided with outdoor access.&rRange» as: «(1) «Eggs from free - range hens» to indicate that the egg - laying hens from which the eggs or egg products were derived were, during egg production ----(A) not housed in caging devices; and (B) provided with outdoor access.&rrange hens» to indicate that the egg - laying hens from which the eggs or egg products were derived were, during egg production ----(A) not housed in caging devices; and (B) provided with outdoor access.&raqegg - laying hens from which the eggs or egg products were derived were, during egg production ----(A) not housed in caging devices; and (B) provided with outdoor access.&raqegg products were derived were, during egg production ----(A) not housed in caging devices; and (B) provided with outdoor access.&raqegg production ----(A) not housed in caging devices; and (B) provided with outdoor access.»