Choice spokesman Tom Godfrey said the national standard for free-range eggs signed off on by government ministers across the country last year did not meet with consumer expectations of free-range.

Mr Godfrey said the term free-range eggs "has been hi-jacked by industrial egg producers... which is unfair to free-range farms who invested to produce free-range eggs people expect and want."

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