27.02.2013

Germany is hit by a new food scandal as authorities struggled to restore consumers' confidence in meat products shattered by the recent discovery of horse meat in thousands of ready meals sold across Europe labelled as beef.
As many as 150 German and 36 Dutch poultry farms are being investigated for fraud involving organic eggs. Led by prosecutors in Oldenburg, Germany.
The investigations are based on information that for many years poultry farmers across northern Germany have systematically violated the rules for free-range and organic poultry farming by keeping too many chickens in their stalls than permitted and sold their eggs under the organic label for a higher price.