date:Jun 13, 2014
The proposal follows an investigation last year by New South Wales Fair Trading, which found the rules for classifying eggs are ambiguous and some of the most expensive eggs have the highest stocking densities for chickens on farms, ABC News reports.
ACT and Queensland are the only states currently with free-range egg standards, but their standards are vastly different.
In ACT, a stocking density of 1,500 birds per hectare can be called free-range, but Queensland raised its stocking density fr