Approximately 236 eggs – this is for years the average annual egg consumption per Austrian citizen. Fried, boiled, baked or used as an important accompaniment to other foods. Of these 1.84 Billion eggs, 75% were laid in Austrian egg-laying hen farms.
  In Austria you can find confirmation of hen rearing-conditions, by referring to the first number of the producer-code, which is clearly stampedon the labelling.

• 0 = Bio-Organic eggs
• 1 = Free range eggs
• 2 = Barn eggs
• 3 = Cage reared or small groups reared in laying batteries

Cage rearing for laying hens has been banned in Austria since January 2009.