A staple ingredient in both sweet and savoury recipes, eggs might not be the most obvious target for fraud. But if you thought an egg was just an egg, think again. In some instances, eggs from caged hens have been labelled as free-range. An operation by the UK’s Department for Environment and Rural Affairs (Defra) that started in 2006 revealed that millions of imported caged eggs had been mislabelled as free-range or organic, leading to multiple arrests.

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