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The British Egg Industry Council says that a new statistical analysis of egg consumption published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition contains significant anomalies. In the study, physicians consuming a high number of eggs appeared to have higher mortality although there was no...

US researchers have found that eating eggs at breakfast time is a great slimming aid – two studies have shown that it can both help cut calorie intake by up to 415 calories per day, and increase weight loss. Research published in the December 05 issue of the Journal of the American College...

The British Egg Industry Council (BEIC) has cooperated fully with the producers of the TV programme, Jamie’s Fowl Dinners, which it hopes will present an informative and balanced picture of egg production in the UK. Early on in the preparation of the programme, the BEIC invited Jamie...

Marguerite Patten OBE, the UK’s original celebrity chef, and Shadow Agriculture Minister, Bill Wiggin, MP, have called for a return to teaching simple, healthy cooking of the post-war generation as part of a campaign to mark the golden anniversary of British Lion eggs. Marguerite launched...

The egg industry has been shocked to learn it will not be allowed to show the iconic Go To Work On An Egg ads, which featured Tony Hancock, on TV to mark the 50th anniversary of the British Lion mark. Eggs are not a food restricted under the new rules on advertising but, despite this, the...

Scientists are close to cracking the age old problem of cooking your boiled egg just right…step aside the clock and the running sand granules – here comes the self-timing egg. Using the latest heat sensitive technology, Lion Quality egg producers tasked boffins to create a foolproof way to...

The British Egg Industry Council (BEIC) has welcomed a new report on the use of eggs in catering by the Food Standards Agency (FSA) which has confirmed the success of the UK egg industry in overcoming salmonella in eggs. More than 9,500 eggs (1,588 6-egg samples) taken from catering...

Lion Quality eggs have secured a unique deal - to sponsor England cricketer Kevin Pietersen’s box! Launching the sponsorship on the eve of the Ashes, Lion Quality eggs’ Kevin Coles said: “While many people will think we’re nuts to sponsor KP’s box, there is a serious message behind the...

Researchers at the University of Connecticut have shown that eating three eggs a day does not raise heart disease risk factors in healthy elderly people, according to research published in the December 2005 edition of the Journal of Nutrition. The findings are important because eggs can...

The British Egg Industry Council has issued a stark warning to caterers in light of a number of prosecutions where food poisoning outbreaks have resulted from using imported eggs. The latest prosecution is of Michelin-starred restaurant Chapter One,which was fined £3,000, and showed that...