A West Auckland egg farm owner is facing eight charges after allegedly selling millions of caged eggs as "free-range". The Commerce Commission has laid eight charges against Xue (Frank) Chen, the owner of Gold Chick Poultry Farm. The commission says that while Chen produced and sold some free-range eggs at his company's farm, he also sold millions of caged eggs as free range between September 2015 and October 2017. It's alleged he arranged for caged eggs to be purchased and re-packaged into egg cartons labelled "free-range". "The Commission alleges that falsely labelled free range eggs were sold to retail and wholesale customers who believed that they were receiving free range eggs and were paying higher prices than for caged eggs," it said in a statement.

Source: Otago Daily Times August 29, 2018 22:52 UTC