Minister: Clear definition of 'free range' eggs may be needed
A national, legally binding definition of free range may have to be created, the Government says, after a major supermarket supplier was found to be passing off caged eggs as free range.
"In time it may get to that point," Primary Industries Minister Nathan Guy told reporters at Parliament this morning.
"It is very difficult at the moment, as I understand it, to determine what is free range."
An investigation by Newsroom found that two brands, Palace Poultry and Woodland, had sold potentially millions of caged eggs with free range packaging.
The eggs came from the same farm in Ararimu, south of Auckland, which is now being investigated by the Serious Fraud Office.