Jan 25, 2017
Avian flu 'risk to free-range labels'
The H5N8 bird flu strain has been found in poultry in Lancashire, Lincolnshire, Carmarthenshire and North Yorkshire. Under current EU rules, products from poultry housed for less than 12 weeks can be still marketed as free-range. This 12-week allowance for birds housed owing to avian flu will come to an end on 28 February. "We may well get to a place where we have a free-range packaging that has a sticker over it that explains the birds have been housed, so it may say 'free-range birds are currently housed due to avian influenza'." Barn eggs are traditionally cheaper in the shops than free-range eggs.
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