date:Dec 17, 2012
ality Mark scheme was set up in 1998 to combat diminishing egg sales, which had fallen by 60% in 1989, when junior health minister Edwina Currie warned TV viewers that most of the egg production in this country was infected with salmonella.
Sales continued to fall by 8% a year, until most UK producers and packers made a voluntary 8M investment to assist the BEIC promote British eggs.