Polish egg producers increase exports, limit deliveries to Polish supermarkets

Polish poultry producers have been limiting their supplies of eggs to supermarkets, while increasing exports due to higher prices of eggs in Europe, said Mariusz Szymaślik, head of industry chamber for poultry producers. Egg producers can get as much as PLN 0.45-0.5 per M-class egg (medium-sized) from foreign clients, while the retail price in Polish supermarkets stands at PLN 0.37-0.39, meaning that the producer can get up to PLN 0.33 per egg. The increased demand for Polish eggs in Europe is the result of the detection of insecticide fipronil in Western European chicken farms and bird flu in Italy, one of Europe’s top egg producers.