Consumer advocate group, Choice, is urging consumers to boycott 19 egg brands following a decision by consumer affairs ministers to introduce a national information standard for free-range egg production.
State and federal consumer affairs ministers introduced a national information standard for free-range egg production on Thursday, which gives farmers clearance to label their eggs 'free range' should they run no more than 10,000 hens per hectare.
Choice spokesman Tom Godfrey called the new standards "preposterous" and instead wanted ministers to follow CSIRO guidelines which recommends for the label to be allocated to farmers who run no more than 1500 hens per hectare.
Mr Godfrey said the 19 brands under this boycott, which includes Aldi, Coles and Woolworths brands, have an outdoor stocking density of up to 10,000 hens per hectare.
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