Marks and Spencer has promised to continue paying the free range egg price to producers who are having to keep birds indoors after the end of February. In the United Kingdom, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs issued the housing order in anticipation, before cases were reported in Wales and Northern England.
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Free range egg labels explain ‘temporarily housed’ hens
Marks and Spencer has promised to continue paying the free range egg price to producers who are having to keep birds indoors after the end of February. In the United Kingdom, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs issued the housing order in anticipation, before cases were reported in Wales and Northern England.
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