As South Africa's worst-ever avian influenza outbreak continues to spread, Woolworths and Pick n Pay are restricting eggs to consumers in an effort to assure a steady supply, News24 reports. Shoprite reportedly said that it had no such plans.
Harare — As South Africa's worst-ever avian influenza outbreak continues to spread, Woolworths and Pick n Pay are restricting eggs to consumers in an effort to assure a steady supply, News24"Due to the shortage of eggs caused by the avian flu, we need to prioritise the use of available whole eggs that meet our standards of food safety and quality for Woolies products made with eggs. As a temporary measure, we therefore have to limit whole egg purchases to 1 pack of 6 eggs per customer.
A six-egg limit per person is in effect up until further notice, unless the store still stocks packs of 18 or 36 eggs, according to According to industry sources, South Africans will pay much more for chicken and eggs as farmers fight the worst avian influenza outbreak since. Millions of fertilized eggs may be imported into South Africa to help with the country's current broiler chicken shortfall, and the industry anticipates a large increase inWhile the more dangerous H7 outbreaks are primarily in Limpopo, the North West, the Free State, and Mpumalanga, the H5 type predominates in the Western Cape and KwaZulu-Natal.
"We are already seeing shortages in commercial table eggs in the marketplace and that will put upwards pressure on the price of table eggs," Breitenbach to slaughter all hens and destroy any eggs. The same goes for farms 3km away from the initial infection site. This helped farmers in the past by stopping the spread of disease and reducing its effects. According to Sapa, the firstin 2017 resulted in the culling of 2.
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