London Calling

Strategic planning, a vision for the future and consensus. All are key for success, yet not always easy to achieve, and even with the best and most coordinated will in the world, there is always the unexpected!..Read more

The European cage ban rarely features in the headlines these days, but this does not mean that egg production is harmonized across the bloc’s Member States. The behavior of Greece and Italy, among others, has caused a few headaches for the European Commission and the European egg industry, and resulted in the issuance of guidance, but now the case of the two countries is being handed up to the European Court of Justice...Read more

On April 11, supermarket chain Tesco issued an “Update on poultry feed,” revealing that it had removed its genetically modified-free guarantee for poultry and eggs. "We are not the first UK supermarket to reach the conclusion that a non-genetically modified policy on poultry feed is unsustainable, and we won’t be the last," the update said...Read more

The exodus from the countryside has clear implications for those industries that are based there...Read more

The systems for producing some organic eggs do not quite match up with what has been printed on their boxes...Read more