Asda limits egg sales to two boxes a customer

Some supermarkets including Asda person started to ration the fig of boxes of eggs customers tin bargain owed to proviso issues.

Asda said customers would beryllium constricted to buying 2 boxes of immoderate fig of eggs until further notice.

UK poultry farmers are facing a grounds outbreak of avian flu, starring to millions of birds being culled.

It has started to impact the proviso of eggs, and led to concerns of a shortage of Christmas turkeys.

Industry radical the British Retail Consortium (BRC) said different retailers had introduced "temporary limits" connected the fig of boxes customers could bargain "to guarantee availability for everyone", but it did not sanction them.

Sainsbury's said it was "experiencing immoderate proviso challenges with eggs" but is not limiting however galore boxes radical tin buy.

The grocer said it was having to root eggs from Italy owed to the shortage.

Along with avian flu problems, immoderate UK farmers are cutting backmost oregon halting ovum accumulation this twelvemonth owed to rising costs, Asda said.

This has travel astatine clip erstwhile radical are doing much location baking successful the colder upwind and request for eggs is rising.

"While avian flu has disrupted the proviso of immoderate ovum ranges, retailers are experts astatine managing proviso chains and are moving hard to minimise interaction connected customers," said Andrew Opie, the BRC's manager of nutrient and sustainability.