Free-range egg supplier under investigationNEWSROOM The Commerce Commission has confirmed to Newsroom that it’s investigating a West Auckland egg supplier for allegedly putting caged eggs in cartons labelled as free-range. The Commerce Commission has confirmed to Newsroom that it's investigating a West Auckland egg supplier for allegedly putting caged eggs in cartons labelled as free-range. The latest investigation is into Blackwater Trading company which produces free-range eggs at its Gold Chick farm in Henderson Valley, West Auckland. Sutherland said that Zeagold monitors its suppliers and that Chen's production of free-range eggs exceeded the amount of eggs it was buying from him. At this time, he had just over 9000 laying hens on the site, more than enough to supply the free-range eggs we bought from him."

Source: Stuff March 20, 2018 23:15 UTC