Entries sought for 25th Scottish Egg Awards
The Scottish Egg Quality Awards is celebrating its 25th year and competition organisers, BOCM PAULS and Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC) are calling for entrants before the end of March.
The competition is aimed at “encouraging the pursuit of excellence in egg quality, to provide benchmark standards of quality that are both realistic and achievable and to recognise the highest quality and consistency achieved by successful entrants”.
Eggs will be collected in late March and taken to the SRUC in Auchincruive for testing and assessment.
There are two major awards – the challenge shield for producer-retailers and a quaich (cup) for producers.
Entries can come from both enriched cage systems and free-range systems of egg production. SRUC carries out quality assessments on eight key parameters: shell colour, egg weight, yolk colour, albumen quality, shell thickness, freedom from meat and blood spots, external appearance and packaging.
“Previous winners of the awards have traditionally made positive sales and marketing capital from their achievements.”
John Cessford, BOCM PAULS
“Previous winners of the awards have traditionally made positive sales and marketing capital from their achievements,” said John Cessford, BOCM PAULS marketing manager.
“We are keen for this year’s winners to capitalise on the 25th anniversary and we will be designing a commemorative awards which will provide further help to awards winners in their egg marketing initiative.”
A special awards ceremony will be held at the Huntingtower Hotel, Perth on 23 May.
For more information contact Iain Campbell, BOCM PAULS on 07803 286724 or Nick Sparks, SRUC on 01292 525100.
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