MARKING OF IMPORTED EGGS.

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 83, 9 April 1928, Page 12

MARKING OF IMPORTED EGGS.

.The' proposed compulsory marking of eggs has occasioned some concern in British cold storage circles. At a recent meeting of the Association of Kefrigeratioh, Mr. J. F. Hooper, who represents the association on the Poultry Advisory Committee of the Ministry of Agriculture, informed the members that he did not think the Ministry would concern itself with marking imported eggs "C.5.," but would insist upon all imported eggs bcinp: marked with the name of the country of origin. He hardly thought that any responsibility could be placed on the cold storage proprietors for marking their customers' goods, but he did think the Ministry would ask that eggs should bo marked before going into store. Unless a cheap egg could be put on the market, a large section of the community, especially in London, was not going to sec an egg. In the course of discussion the balance of opinion was that marking would tend to make all eggji' dearer, with a resultant falling-off in the consumptive demand.