Re: Egg Box Labelling.

From: Jill (news_at_REMOVETHISkintaline.co.uk)
Date: 07/28/04 

Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 09:57:25 +0100

"Jay" <j_green156@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1091003255.22959.0@despina.uk.clara.net...
>
> "Martyn" <bill@Microsoft.com> wrote in message

> >
> >
> I think you're probably right and wrong.
> I know that certain terms have a very specific legal meaning. eg organic
and
> free range. But I'm not sure about barns.

Barn - is a SMT = special marketing term too
as is Perchery

Fresh seems a pointless thing to
> add - would you buy them if they weren't fresh? Fresh Farm is probably one
> of those terms without legal meaning so it could mean whatever anyone
wants
> it to mean. IIRC eggs sold through a shop also have to be date stamped.

yes

>
> If I labelled my egg boxes (I don't have that many eggs and simply use the
> egg boxes people give me)

that is not allowed :~)) but you try and persuade your customers of that !!

I might be tempted to say they were "Eggs laid by
> happy garden hens"

"Free roaming" - works for us :~)
We used to be registered and still do everything that is required but they
needed records of hens in the laying flock through the year and as our
laying flock included spare breeding pullets and hens it was getting very
silly recording birds in and out all the time.
We had reduced our laying flock anyway from over 500 at one point.
Together with fewer and fewer hotels could afford proper free range with
cost cutting and to be honest we had enough to do without traipsing in and
out of two dropping off eggs to a puckle of customers.

 Possibly even adding the hens names to make it even more
> personal.

That would be fun

> One of the things I like about living here is the ability to buy locally
> produced food. To be honest I think there is far too much red tape around
> some of the UK regulations and although I understand much of it is meant
to
> be for our health benefits, we do sometimes have our priorities wrong.

Its a shame that more folks do not think about their food so we could iron
out some of the bureaucracy. Much has good sense attached but is so unwieldy
that the benefits are lost 

--
regards
Jill Bowis
Pure bred utility chickens and ducks
Housing; Equipment,  Books, Videos, Gifts
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http://www.kintaline.co.uk
>
> Regards
> Jay
>
>

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