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Room to lay

Friday 13 March 1998 00:02 GMT
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THE European Commission has proposed giving Europe's 250 million egg-laying battery hens a bit more room.

All hen houses built after next year would have to allow each bird at least 800 square cm of cage area. The present minimum space is 450 square cm.

- Reuters, Brussels

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