Poultry: Animal Welfare

House of Commons Commission written question – answered at on 19 July 2010.

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Photo of Luciana Berger Luciana Berger Labour, Liverpool, Wavertree

To ask the hon. Member for Middlesbrough, representing the House of Commons Commission whether any farms from which eggs are sourced for the House's catering outlets practise beak-trimming.

Photo of Stuart Bell Stuart Bell Labour, Middlesbrough

All fresh eggs are sourced from British higher-welfare standard flocks assured under the RSPCA's Freedom Food scheme and the BEIC British Lion code of practice, where beak-trimming is carried out in accordance with a code of best practice. Pasteurised egg products come from Belgium and are sourced from farms where beak trimming is carried out under the German regulatory KAT scheme, which is an equivalent European scheme for high standards of welfare in animal husbandry.

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