To the Inverkehrbringen of eggs since 1 January 2004 exact marking rules apply. Eggs, which are sold by the producer directly to the final consumer, must be marked however only starting from 1 July 2005. From imprinting appropriate on the eggs the consumer can which is inferior information infer:

• the attitude form of the chicken,
• the country from that the egg comes,
• the Land of the Federal Republic by the first two numbers of the producer operating and stable number and
• the producer operating and stable number.

An egg with the marking 1-DE-0234572 originates from open land attitude Hamburg stable 34572. Is missing however the putting date, which a special criterion for the duration of storage ice would be.

Attitude form

• 0 = bio eggs: Open land attitude with fodder from ecological cultivation
• 1 = open land attitude: Per chicken 10 m2 must be present discharge
• 2 = Bodenhaltung: Per square meter stable surface maximally 7 chickens may be counted
• 3 = cage attitude (putting batteries): Per chicken 450-550 cm2 at surface are counted (approx. 3/4 DIN A4 of a sheet)

The individual attitude forms are specified exactly in the EEC regulation. The classification rises from ideas from the animal protection and the food monitoring. The legal situation certainly by the food marking regulation (LMKVO) and through your-genuinly. In Germany the attitude is by chickens in putting batteries starting from 2006 forbidden, European Union far only starting from 2012.

Country

• DE = Germany
• RK = Austria
• = Belgium
• DK = Denmark
• IT = Spain
• FI = Finland
• FR = France
• GR = Greece
• IR = Ireland
• IE = Italy
• LU = Luxembourg
• NL = the Netherlands
• PT = Portugal
• SE = Sweden
• UK = united kingdom

Land of the Federal Republic

Grades

are divided according to EEC regulation into the classes A extra, A, B and C.

The classes B and C are industrially processed and to arrive usually not into the sales.

The retail trade sold usually only eggs to that the grade A. Sie, intactly, cleanly not washed or otherwise cleaned, their Luftkammer is maximally 6mm is highly and immovably, the protein clearly, transparent, gelatinously and free by strange storages. The Dotter is free from in or supports of strange kind, which is germ not visibly developed. The egg is free from foreign smelling.

Eggs of the grade A extra are subject same requirements as above, however the Luftkammer is less than 4mm high. The designation "“extra"” is at the most up to 9. Day after putting and/or 7. Day after the packing permissible.

Weight classes

Depending upon weight are divided in four (in former times eight) weight classes:

Related links

• Association for controlled animal husbandry forms registered association.
• Marking of eggs
• Egg marking: What has to (Federal Ministry for nutrition, agriculture and consumer protection)

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