Dulcesol cakes to be made with 100% free-range eggs within five years
Sunday, February 11, 2018 @ 3:17 PM
CAKE manufacturers Dulcesol has announced all its products will use free-range eggs only within a maximum of five years, having already started on actively checking out its suppliers.
German supermarket Lidl has made the ground-breaking step of axing all stock made with eggs produced by battery hens and other stores have pledged to follow suit, although over a longer period of time.
The Dulcesol Group, set up by a family in Gandia (Valencia province), uses over 7,500 tonnes of liquid egg every year, laid by hens at the farm it owns in Terrateig in the Vall d'Albaida district, a few kilometres inland from the factory.
The Terrateig farm opened in the 1980s, and Dulcesol has confirmed that the hens in one of its four units are now free-range and get the run of a pen instead of being cooped up in cages.
This will shortly be the case for all the half a million hens on the farm.
Dulcesol keeps its own hens so it can guarantee the origin and quality of its egg supplies, since 90% of the eggs it uses comes from the farm in the Vall d'Albaida.
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