Labelling for free-range poultry to be relaxed

Currently, after 12 weeks, free-range poultry has to be labelled as indoor reared when mandatory housing measures are introduced in response to bird flu

Rachael Brown
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Labelling for free-range poultry to be relaxed

The Government has announced today (April 2) that free-range poultry meat producers and processors will no longer need to change how free-range poultrymeat is labelled when mandatory housing measures are...

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