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Survey shows Australian egg industry remains steady

Australians continue to support the egg industry, with new national benchmarking research showing trust remains steady, driven by confidence in regulation and the role of eggs as a source of nutrition. Read More

Dae HongSeptember 24, 2025, 9:16 amSeptember 24, 2025

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ACCC releases guidance on free range egg standard

The ACCC has released guidance for egg producers on its approach to enforcing the new National Information Standard on free range eggs, which comes into effect on 26 April 2018.
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Staff WriterFebruary 7, 2018, 4:56 amFebruary 7, 2018

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Nestlé to go cage egg free

Nestlé, the world’s largest food company, has announced its commitment to eliminate cages from its egg supply chain worldwide.
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Staff WriterNovember 15, 2017, 10:59 pmNovember 15, 2017

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Egg producer penalised $750,000 for misleading ‘free range’ claims

The Federal Court has ordered Snowdale to pay penalties totalling $750,000 for making false or misleading representations that its eggs were ‘free range’.
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Staff WriterJuly 25, 2017, 11:24 pmJuly 25, 2017

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Taste trumps animal welfare for free range egg consumers

Australian consumers who buy free range eggs are more likely to do so because they believe the eggs taste good than because they are concerned about animal welfare, according to new research. In a paper
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Staff WriterMay 18, 2017, 1:20 amMay 18, 2017

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NZ’s Ewing Poultry eggs get animal welfare approval

Ewing Poultry, a farm south of Nelson, is the latest to become SPCA Blue Tick approved for its free range and barn eggs sold throughout New Zealand.
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Staff WriterFebruary 13, 2017, 12:28 amFebruary 13, 2017

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Australia experiencing an egg shortage

Australian consumers are facing an egg shortage that has been caused, in part, by new free range regulations.
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Staff WriterJune 8, 2016, 1:49 amJune 8, 2016

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‘Free range’ egg producer found guilty of deceiving public

Major Western Australian egg producer Snowdale Holdings has been found guilty of falsely claiming some of its eggs were free-range.
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Staff WriterMay 19, 2016, 12:56 amMay 20, 2016

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Free-range chickens not so ‘free’

Australian consumers are being deceived by false claims from so-called ‘free-range’ egg producers. Free-Range Egg Farms, which produce the brands Ecoeggs, Port Stephens and Field Fresh, have been issued
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Staff WriterApril 18, 2016, 2:49 amApril 19, 2016

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Choice launches free range egg app

Consumer group CHOICE has launched an app which provides consumers with an ‘augmented reality’ view of the various living conditions of birds categorised as ‘free range’. The app comes in the wake
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Staff WriterApril 8, 2016, 12:35 amApril 8, 2016

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Sunny Queen Farms commits to lower hen density for free range eggs

Sunny Queen Farms brand has committed to an outdoor hen density of no more than 1500 hens per hectare in their free range egg farms across Australia.
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Staff WriterMarch 24, 2016, 1:08 amMarch 31, 2016

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Federal ministers give a cluck about egg rip-off

Consumer advocacy group Choice has welcomed today’s start of consultations on free-range egg labelling as the next step in ending the ‘free-range’ rip off.
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Staff WriterOctober 6, 2015, 9:41 amOctober 6, 2015

free range eggs

Survey shows Australian egg industry remains steady

ACCC releases guidance on free range egg standard

Nestlé to go cage egg free

Egg producer penalised $750,000 for misleading ‘free range’ claims

Taste trumps animal welfare for free range egg consumers

NZ’s Ewing Poultry eggs get animal welfare approval

Australia experiencing an egg shortage

‘Free range’ egg producer found guilty of deceiving public

Free-range chickens not so ‘free’

Choice launches free range egg app

Sunny Queen Farms commits to lower hen density for free range eggs

Federal ministers give a cluck about egg rip-off

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