Free Range Egg Labelling Information Standard

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Consultation Type
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Key Documents

On 31 March 2016, Consumer Affairs Ministers agreed to the introduction of an information standard requiring eggs labelled as 'free range' to have been laid by hens that had meaningful and regular access to an outdoor range, and were subject to an outdoor stocking density of 10,000 hens per hectare or less.

The information standard will require producers to prominently disclose the outdoor stocking density of hens laying free range eggs on their packaging allowing consumers to easily compare different brands of eggs labelled free range.

The information standard will provide a safe harbour from claims of misleading or deceptive conduct where a producer has made a free range claim in compliance with the standard. Prior to the safe harbour provisions in this standard commencing, a further amendment to the Australian Consumer Law is required to support safe harbour provisions, and the Government will release those amendments for public consultation in due course.

The Decision Regulation Impact Statement (RIS) is available through the Office of Best Practice Regulation website.

Submissions

52 submissions were received for this consultation, including 11 confidential submissions.

Aitken - pdf 102.14 KB
Animals Australia - pdf 332.37 KB
Arzey - pdf 427.79 KB
Berwick - pdf 163.33 KB
CEFASAT - pdf 171.12 KB
CHOICE - pdf 1.93 MB
Cooke - pdf 185.56 KB
Daly - pdf 34.15 KB
Davey - pdf 61.9 KB
Days Eggs - pdf 341.49 KB
Eadie - pdf 90.81 KB
Foster - pdf 5.08 KB
Freeranger - pdf 213.73 KB
Freeranger 2 - pdf 173.86 KB
Gillow - pdf 28.31 KB
Hagan - pdf 109.74 KB
Healy - pdf 43.5 KB
Heydon - pdf 198.05 KB
Hicks - pdf 113.71 KB
Hummerston - pdf 102 KB
Laudrum - pdf 239.96 KB
Law Society of SA - pdf 4.69 MB
Le Lacheur - pdf 186.01 KB
Lipold - pdf 15.35 KB
NSW Famers - pdf 319.82 KB
Oliver - pdf 82.8 KB
Orthia - pdf 46.89 KB
Paton-Boxall - pdf 51.24 KB
RSPCA - pdf 197.33 KB
Rutherford - pdf 186.17 KB
Scanu - pdf 16.42 KB
Sentient - pdf 520.23 KB
Shane Rattenbury - pdf 93.71 KB
Thompson - pdf 239.04 KB
Vegan Australia - pdf 82.05 KB
Voiceless - pdf 633.46 KB
Wrench - pdf 191.55 KB
Wyatt - pdf 117.32 KB
Xia - pdf 158.28 KB