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After a campaign to raise awareness of the EU ban on battery cages in 2012, more than 5,000 people signed up to the legaleggs.com pledge as a show of solidarity with producers of British Lion eggs and egg products and to support the fight to keep eggs and egg products produced from illegal...

A new report published 25 years after the Edwina salmonella crisis, shows that scientific opinion has turned full circle - with health experts now recommending that increased consumption of eggs could have widespread benefits for several key population groups. ‘Eggs - establishing the...

This week (2 November 2013) sees the launch of a new version of the British Lion Code of Practice, marking the 15th anniversary of the Code and the return of the ‘little Lion’ to British eggs. Since November 1998, 130 billion Lion eggs have been sold, £100million has been invested by the...

Hundreds of bloggers got involved on twitter this month to swap egg recipe ideas as part of a ‘Twitter party’ held on the social networking site during British Egg Week. One hour of eggcellent chat resulted in countless recipe ideas, tips and even saw the party trending. The speedy recipe...

We eat 350 eggs every second in the UK, so get cracking this World Egg Day (Friday 11 October) with delicious egg meals from across the globe. Among the hundreds of recipes on www.eggrecipes.co.uk is a speedy Curried Scrambled Eggs, a flavour-packed Japanese omelette or extra easy Egg...

Pupils across the country were given an ‘Eggspress’ cookery lesson last week to celebrate British Egg Week. Howard Helmer, the world’s fastest omelette maker, and experts from the Kids’ Cookery School taught children how to cook some simple egg dishes including a speedy pizza omelette as...

New research shows that more children think that they should go to work on an aeroplane than go to work on an egg. The survey*, commissioned for British Egg Week, also shows that while 95% of adults can cook at least one egg dish from scratch, only half of today’s kids can. These results...

The world’s fastest omelette maker is sharing his skills with kids around the country to mark British Egg Week (30 Sep – 6 October). Howard Helmer, who holds the Guinness World Record for omelette making – 427 omelettes in 30 minutes, is fronting an ‘Eggspress’ tour travelling around the...

The British Egg Industry Council has welcomed the reversal of the House of Commons ban on the use of fresh eggs. BEIC Chairman, Andrew Joret, said: “This is a victory for common sense. We said at the time that the ban on fresh eggs was without foundation and absolutely ridiculous and we...

The British Egg Industry Council (BEIC) has called the decision of the House of Commons to ban the use of fresh eggs for dishes such as omelettes and scrambled eggs ‘ridiculous’. ‘British eggs have never been safer,’ says BEIC Chairman Andrew Joret. ‘The British Lion food safety scheme has...