:00:00. > :00:12.Hello there. I'm Matthew Wright. You're watching Inside Out London.
:00:13. > :00:17.Here's what's coming up tonight: We go under cover to expose
:00:18. > :00:24.discrimination in London's housing market. 99% of my landlords don't
:00:25. > :00:27.want afro Caribbean. Thought why should he discriminate me for not
:00:28. > :00:33.having a place because of the colour of my skin? And in a food special,
:00:34. > :00:38.we ask: How confident can we be about the food that we eat? Could
:00:39. > :00:43.there be another horsemeat scandal? Who is looking after our food? Can
:00:44. > :00:48.we be certain our food does what it says on the tin?
:00:49. > :00:52.And how effective is the ban on battery farmed eggs? We are not
:00:53. > :00:58.allowed to prevent eggs or egg products coming into the European
:00:59. > :00:59.Union from countries which still use the conventional battery cage
:01:00. > :01:18.system. It's hard to believe that just a few
:01:19. > :01:24.decades ago signs declaring no blacks, no dogs, no Irish were used
:01:25. > :01:29.to discriminate against potential tenants here in the capital. 50
:01:30. > :01:34.years of race relations and equality laws are supposed to have done away
:01:35. > :01:37.with all that. Tonight, in an under cover investigation, Inside Out
:01:38. > :01:47.exposes the letting agents prepared to select tenants on the basis of
:01:48. > :01:52.the colour of their skin. From above, you'd never know it was
:01:53. > :02:00.happening. But something is going very wrong in parts of London's
:02:01. > :02:07.letting market. 99% of my landlords don't want afro Caribbean. 45 years
:02:08. > :02:11.after the UK first banned discrimination in housing... I
:02:12. > :02:16.thought why should he discriminate me because of the colour of my skin?
:02:17. > :02:23.Tonight we expose the letting agents willing to turn away tenants on
:02:24. > :02:26.behalf of landlords. So if they're afro Caribbean, they won't be
:02:27. > :02:32.allowed to come and view the properties. Disgraceful. It is
:02:33. > :02:37.unlawful. And they need driving out. Jumjee and Wayne have found a flat
:02:38. > :02:41.now, but it was a struggle. What got in the way was something many
:02:42. > :02:46.thought you'd never see in London 2013 ` letting agents preventing
:02:47. > :02:51.them seeing flats for no other reasons, they say, other than their
:02:52. > :02:56.colour. You ask why and why is it still in the window, and they'll
:02:57. > :03:00.make up any reason. They'll say yes, it's because someone's taken it. But
:03:01. > :03:04.then it's advertised in the window. You are told certain things and then
:03:05. > :03:07.you see that there's a different reaction to other customers. That's
:03:08. > :03:15.when you realise oh, maybe there's something different going on here.
:03:16. > :03:22.Their experience is mirrored by others. A survey by antiracism
:03:23. > :03:26.charity the Runnymede Trust suggests more than 25% of black people they
:03:27. > :03:31.asked feel they've been discriminated against in private
:03:32. > :03:34.housing. But the problem with proving this discrimination is that
:03:35. > :03:39.it can leave virtually no trace. Even if you thought it was going on,
:03:40. > :03:43.you'd struggle to say for sure. But lawyers, landlords, letting agents
:03:44. > :03:52.had all told us that it was happening and that in certain parts
:03:53. > :03:57.of London, it was rife. We've got Deane and Jo on board. As far as a
:03:58. > :04:00.landlord is concerned, the only difference between them is their
:04:01. > :04:03.colour and ethnic background. We've discovered numerous agents who say
:04:04. > :04:08.they're prepared to select tenants bitch race on behalf
:04:09. > :04:16.tenants by race on behalf of landlords. This is a flat we're
:04:17. > :04:21.going to put on the market. It's got three bedrooms, up to data plienss
:04:22. > :04:27.`` appliances and a great London location. The only thing it needs
:04:28. > :04:33.now is a tenant. We're under cover and have invited
:04:34. > :04:38.agents to give us a market assessment. How much do you think I
:04:39. > :04:42.could get? 650 a week. Not just from any agencies, but from ten who've
:04:43. > :04:48.already told us they're prepared to discriminate for a landlord. I
:04:49. > :04:54.wanted to know if it's possible to specify no afro Caribbean, black? We
:04:55. > :04:56.can't do that. We can't discriminate. Obviously we've got
:04:57. > :05:03.our ways around us. You don't have to tell us that, because we, like
:05:04. > :05:10.yourself, 99% of my landlords don't want afro Caribbeans or any
:05:11. > :05:14.troublesome people. Yeah, that's not a problem. There's nothing wrong
:05:15. > :05:18.with saying that. Without openly advertising it that no afro
:05:19. > :05:23.Caribbeans allowed, we would obviously, you know, understand that
:05:24. > :05:28.it's not available. It's quite shocking really. I think these are
:05:29. > :05:32.individuals, agents who knows what `` who know what they're doing, who
:05:33. > :05:37.know what they're doing is wrong, who know that they are breaching the
:05:38. > :05:42.law. Equally, they know how to get round it. Just listen to how they
:05:43. > :05:47.say they'll get around it. We don't say no, there and then. We say OK,
:05:48. > :05:51.we'll have to come back to you. Then we don't call them back. When
:05:52. > :05:56.somebody comes in, we won't advise them of the property being
:05:57. > :06:03.available. If they know about it, we say somebody's taken it We make an
:06:04. > :06:07.excuse that a colleague has taken someone on a viewing, or it's under
:06:08. > :06:13.offer. We asked the agents why they were prepared to break the law. We
:06:14. > :06:19.got no response. In the 1940s and 50s, black people faced open
:06:20. > :06:25.discrimination and hostility. Waves of immigrants arrived from the
:06:26. > :06:31.Caribbean. And Britain saw some of its worst race riots in Notting
:06:32. > :06:36.Hill. Discrimination was blatant in housing. Signs on doors stopping
:06:37. > :06:42.black people from renting flats. The race relations act of 1968 banned
:06:43. > :06:48.this kind of discrimination. 45 years later, we've discovered it's
:06:49. > :06:53.still there, but under the radar. What was staggering was the sheer
:06:54. > :06:59.number of agents who said they'd be prepared to discriminate. The
:07:00. > :07:04.question ` would they be prepared to do it in rack it tis `` practice
:07:05. > :07:10.We've put the flat up for rent with two agents, ?450 a week. You're
:07:11. > :07:16.about to see what happens when Deane and Jo try to get a viewing. Jo
:07:17. > :07:22.tries national estate agents in Willesden. I would like to arrange a
:07:23. > :07:29.viewing for a property. Tuesday? Is that OK? Fine, yeah. Are you able to
:07:30. > :07:35.meet us at the property? Perfect. Jo has a viewing. Now it's Deane's
:07:36. > :07:40.turn. Remember ` same property, definitely still available. I saw an
:07:41. > :07:44.advert for one of your properties. I'm afraid that's gone. It's gone?
:07:45. > :07:48.Yeah. Do you know if there's going to be any viewings at all, anything
:07:49. > :07:55.happening at all in the future? No, no, it's gone, mate. Just gone, all
:07:56. > :07:58.right then. I thought, why should he discriminate me for not having a
:07:59. > :08:08.place because of the colour of my skin. I left there angry. The next
:08:09. > :08:12.agent, A to Z, Deane is first. He's promised a call on Monday. Surprise,
:08:13. > :08:16.surprise, no call. Remember this... We don't say to them no there and
:08:17. > :08:22.then, we say OK, we'll have to come back to you. Then we don't call them
:08:23. > :08:27.back. Then he's fobbed off again. I haven't got confirmation. But once I
:08:28. > :08:31.do, I've got your details. When Jo tries the next morning, it couldn't
:08:32. > :08:38.be more different. What time do you want to do on Wednesday? What have
:08:39. > :08:42.you got? I've got 5pm. We showed the footage to Tinchy Stryder, a BRIT
:08:43. > :08:45.Award winning pop artist, who's worked hard to battle
:08:46. > :08:50.discrimination. I'm still here trying to think, did I really see
:08:51. > :08:54.that? They seem so OK about it. They don't feel that they're doing
:08:55. > :08:59.anything wrong. That's what I'm confused about. Is that the most
:09:00. > :09:04.shocking thing, the casual? Yeah, that's why I'm in shock. They wasn't
:09:05. > :09:08.trying to hide it. It's like this is the way it is. I know that maybe
:09:09. > :09:13.they want to someone like OK what's his background now. Does it all mean
:09:14. > :09:18.the law isn't working? Don Foster was a Housing Minister until last
:09:19. > :09:22.week. I was horrified racism, discrimination has no place in
:09:23. > :09:26.London. We've got firm legislation against it. I think the difficulty
:09:27. > :09:31.is in some cases there'll be a situation where somebody is refused
:09:32. > :09:36.a viewing, as you showed, but wouldn't know themselves that they
:09:37. > :09:39.had been the victim of a racist incident. Go back to the agents who
:09:40. > :09:45.have marketed our property to try to get some answers. Can I just ask you
:09:46. > :09:49.if you're aware that it's against the law it agree not to show people
:09:50. > :09:53.a flat because they're afro Caribbean. Yes, but it's something
:09:54. > :09:57.that you requested. You'll agroo eto do anything? I don't say I would
:09:58. > :10:01.agree. Against the law, you are aware of that? Yeah, I understand
:10:02. > :10:06.that. We have plenty afro Caribbean here, I can show you my files. One
:10:07. > :10:09.refused to hope the doors when he saw us arrive.
:10:10. > :10:13.Can I ask you a question please? Could you talk to us, please? Are
:10:14. > :10:19.you aware it's against the law to agrow not to show someone a flat
:10:20. > :10:24.because they're afro Caribbean? He's not prepared to answer any
:10:25. > :10:29.questions. The consequences for society is that this kind of
:10:30. > :10:35.behaviour takes us back 45, 50 years. If you have every agent in an
:10:36. > :10:39.area thinking this is normal and accepted practice, then this is
:10:40. > :10:44.going to be `` to have a direct impact on the community. That is
:10:45. > :10:51.fundamentally unfair. That feels like we've gone back in time. The
:10:52. > :10:56.impunity with which agents get away with this under the radar raises
:10:57. > :11:00.worrying questions. Just two investigations by the property
:11:01. > :11:04.ombudsman in result of complaints in the last three years, not one
:11:05. > :11:06.upheld. No investigation by the Equalities and Human Rights
:11:07. > :11:11.Commission. We've shown how subtle discrimination in London's housing
:11:12. > :11:23.market in 2013 actually is and most worrying of all, if we found this in
:11:24. > :11:28.parts of west London, where else? Now still to come tonight: In
:11:29. > :11:33.Britain, we're very careful to police the welfare of our hens. But
:11:34. > :11:40.how can we know what conditions they come from when eggs are now a global
:11:41. > :11:44.business? Earlier this year, when horsemeat
:11:45. > :11:47.was found in products in our supermarket shelves, it made many of
:11:48. > :11:52.us question just how confident we are that what we're eating really is
:11:53. > :11:57.what we think it is. We sent Jay Rayner to find out who's policing
:11:58. > :11:58.our grub and just how strong our protections against food fraud
:11:59. > :12:13.really are. Spaghetti bolognese is one of the
:12:14. > :12:18.nation's favourite dishes. Unsurprisingly so. What could be
:12:19. > :12:23.better than lovely beef simmered in extra virgin olive oil served over
:12:24. > :12:28.pasta made with free range eggs. What if the beef is a pony and if
:12:29. > :12:33.the eggs are captured in a cage and what if the olive oil is less
:12:34. > :12:37.innocent than it claims? All of these items and many more have been
:12:38. > :12:41.the subject of food fraud over the past queue years `` few years. How
:12:42. > :12:45.can we be certain there won't be another horsemeat scandal? How can
:12:46. > :12:50.we be sure that our food does what it says on the tin? What we've seen
:12:51. > :12:54.are failings in the system with more fraud and less testing of our food.
:12:55. > :12:58.And a report just published by the National Audit Office has underlined
:12:59. > :13:01.the problems. It says the Government failed to spot the possibility of
:13:02. > :13:06.horse being passed off as beef earlier this year. There's confusion
:13:07. > :13:10.over the role of the Food Standards Agency, which is in charge of food
:13:11. > :13:15.regulation. And it says that detection of fraud is falling short
:13:16. > :13:20.what have we, as consumers, should expect. It's our local Trading
:13:21. > :13:23.Standards who are the food police on the ground doing the checks. And
:13:24. > :13:27.drastic cuts to their budgets are putting the whole system of
:13:28. > :13:34.detecting food fraud at risk. I'm going to take these and do some
:13:35. > :13:39.checks on these. To understand the challenges Trading Standards face,
:13:40. > :13:49.I'm spending the day with food enforcement officer Aisha. We're in
:13:50. > :13:57.Suffolk. Is the packaging only four grams on these? I thought it was 12
:13:58. > :14:01.Graemes. `` grams. The consumer needs to know what they're getting.
:14:02. > :14:06.This is a discrepancy between weights. It says it's 200 grams and
:14:07. > :14:09.220 grams. It looks like an oversight. Buff they have to get it
:14:10. > :14:13.right so the consumer knows what they're getting. The team have had
:14:14. > :14:17.two successful prosecutions recently. They found out consumers
:14:18. > :14:20.were being ripped off by companies selling jam and sauce which didn't
:14:21. > :14:23.contain what they claim on the label. Across England, there are now
:14:24. > :14:29.fewer officers like them on the hunt for dodgy food. Against this,
:14:30. > :14:33.reports of fraud are rising. The first six month of this year, 812
:14:34. > :14:36.incidents of food fraud have been reported to the Food Standards
:14:37. > :14:40.Agency. That's an increase of a third over this time last year.
:14:41. > :14:44.Trading Standards are also reported an increase. Yet, their budgets
:14:45. > :14:47.nationally are reckoned to be down a third and the number of samples
:14:48. > :14:52.they're sending for testing are down by almost a quarter. We'll see the
:14:53. > :14:56.picture that in some cases, throughout the UK, we'll have no
:14:57. > :14:59.Trading Standards service in three years. Recessions make fraud more
:15:00. > :15:04.attractive. Officers on the ground are very busy and so is the food
:15:05. > :15:08.Standards Agency. It's in overall charge of our food safety. Their
:15:09. > :15:12.fraud branch has never been busier. The FSA has been repeatedly
:15:13. > :15:16.criticised as being not fit for purpose. It was accused of acting
:15:17. > :15:22.too slowly during the horsemeat scandal. Is the current system tough
:15:23. > :15:25.enough? Let's put these things in perspective in relation to
:15:26. > :15:29.horsemeat. In the prior year there were over 90,000 samples collected.
:15:30. > :15:33.There were over 20,000 authenticity tests. 8,000 of those on meat
:15:34. > :15:36.products. There have been several areas we've been targeting for a
:15:37. > :15:39.number of years. It wasn't necessary lip in the public conscious ``
:15:40. > :15:44.necessarily in the public consciousness. A former head of
:15:45. > :15:48.authenticity at the Food Standards Agency told us we are now less well
:15:49. > :15:52.erequest independent to uncover fraud. Dr Mark Woolfe spent nine
:15:53. > :16:00.years in charge. He believes budget cuts are undermining the system. The
:16:01. > :16:02.FSA rely on local authorities' results. Local authorities now are
:16:03. > :16:06.under financial pressure and therefore, the amount of sampling
:16:07. > :16:11.that they're doing has been quite severely reduced. I think the whole
:16:12. > :16:16.system is really quite severely weakened. It's clearly challenging
:16:17. > :16:22.in the current environment for local authorities to do the work they need
:16:23. > :16:26.to do. Buff the F `` but the FSA has invested considerably more in the
:16:27. > :16:30.last year to boost resources and efforts. Its clear that the system
:16:31. > :16:34.is detecting problems. A Food Standards Agency report lists all
:16:35. > :16:39.the products it thinks could be or have been the subject of fraud. It's
:16:40. > :16:44.quite a list. Honey, wine, fruit juice, spices, olive oil, but should
:16:45. > :16:47.all testing be paid for by the public purse? What about the
:16:48. > :16:52.supermarkets, after all, we buy most of our food from them. Tesco were
:16:53. > :16:55.one of those found to be selling products containing horsemeat. I've
:16:56. > :16:58.come to their lab in wham ton to find `` Wolverhampton to find out
:16:59. > :17:03.what they're doing now. You have thousands of products in Tesco, how
:17:04. > :17:07.do you decide what to test? We take a balanced view of where the biggest
:17:08. > :17:12.risk might be that something could go wrong, so we could be telling
:17:13. > :17:16.consumers that there was chicken in a product, we need to be sure it's
:17:17. > :17:20.chicken and not Turkey. We have to be sure it's chicken. That's when we
:17:21. > :17:24.DNA test and do those tests frequently. Since horsemeat was
:17:25. > :17:28.found in some of the products they were selling, Tesco's say they now
:17:29. > :17:32.carry out eight times more DN Hoover testing. `` DNA testing. Do you
:17:33. > :17:39.think something like the horsemeat scandal could happen again? Our sole
:17:40. > :17:44.objective in giving our customers the best confidence we can in the
:17:45. > :17:48.products we produce is to ensure that kind of activity, if it were
:17:49. > :17:51.there, we would catch it. Because the supply chains are shorter, we
:17:52. > :17:59.understand them better, the testing is stronger than it ever was before,
:18:00. > :18:02.that fraud should not happen again. While Tesco are confident they've
:18:03. > :18:05.learned lessons, the rest of the food surveillance system is under
:18:06. > :18:11.increasing pressure. The big question is: Can it cope? In my view
:18:12. > :18:14.the horsemeat scandal could happen again. There's always somebody,
:18:15. > :18:20.particularly in times of austerity, prepared to cut corners. When we're
:18:21. > :18:23.faced with an inspectorate that is creeking and is fragmented, that's a
:18:24. > :18:28.perfect opportunity for someone to exploit those conditions and take
:18:29. > :18:31.money, hard`earned money from consumers' pockets. Whilst the
:18:32. > :18:35.majority of our food is safe and what it says it is, food fraud is an
:18:36. > :18:38.established crime. It's all about money. Where there's money to be
:18:39. > :18:43.made, criminals will be attracted to food fraud. Food is a global ind
:18:44. > :18:46.strip now. It's complex and hard to police. Making sure it is what it
:18:47. > :18:52.says it is is very, very tough indeed.
:18:53. > :18:58.If you're hungry for more discussion on food fraud and food safety, then
:18:59. > :19:01.why not tune in to the Mark Forrest show right after tonight's
:19:02. > :19:06.programme. BBC London 94. 9.
:19:07. > :19:10.Following welfare concerns, battery farming, where hens lay eggs in very
:19:11. > :19:15.tiny cages, is now a thing of the past in our country. What about food
:19:16. > :19:18.sourced from abroad ` could we be unwittingly eating eggs from
:19:19. > :19:25.countries where welfare standards are much lower.
:19:26. > :19:31.Eggs are one of the staple foods of the British diet. It's estimated we
:19:32. > :19:36.consume 182 eggs a year each. That's eggs that we fry, boil, poach and
:19:37. > :19:42.scramble. As well as eggs that are used in everyday food, like quiche
:19:43. > :19:46.and cakes. Do we all know where our eggs are coming from? Battery
:19:47. > :19:52.farming was banned in the UK almost two years ago, so we should all be
:19:53. > :19:56.able to enjoy guilt`free eggs. Battery farming was where hens were
:19:57. > :20:00.kept in small cages, like these, with very little room to move. The
:20:01. > :20:04.cages were banned across the European Union, because it was felt
:20:05. > :20:08.to be cruel. But not every country complied with the rules straight
:20:09. > :20:12.away. Italy and Greece are now being taken to court by the European
:20:13. > :20:16.Commission for failing to comply with the battery cage ban.
:20:17. > :20:21.Compassion in world farming says these pictures were taken in Italy
:20:22. > :20:28.shortly before the ban came in. Is it possible that battery cage eggs
:20:29. > :20:33.are still getting through? In Britain, we've been moving towards
:20:34. > :20:36.more welfare friendly systems of egg production for some time. Eggs from
:20:37. > :20:41.free`range hens like these, kept on a small farm on the South Downs, now
:20:42. > :20:46.account for almost half the eggs we buy. A small percentage are organic
:20:47. > :20:51.or barn eggs, the rest come from enriched cages or colonies, as
:20:52. > :20:56.they're sometimes known. British farmers were quick to comply with
:20:57. > :21:01.the new law. Of 120 battery cage farms in the UK, half closed down,
:21:02. > :21:09.the rest switched production method. Technically, this is an enriched
:21:10. > :21:15.cage... We went to see Elwyn Griffiths of Oakland farm eggs. His
:21:16. > :21:20.family business invested money to move to enriched cages. At first
:21:21. > :21:25.glass they may look like battery cages. Buff Elwyn explain `` but
:21:26. > :21:29.Elwyn explains why they're different. You can hear them
:21:30. > :21:32.scratching as they peck on the feed and exact a natural behaviour.
:21:33. > :21:36.They're on the perches. They can preen. They can do normal
:21:37. > :21:39.activities. They can interact and move out of the way of one another
:21:40. > :21:46.and they lay their eggs in the nest box to show a natural function. How
:21:47. > :21:50.frustrating is it for you, as a farmer, to find that other EU
:21:51. > :21:53.nations, Italy and Greece, are still not complying with this law? It's
:21:54. > :21:58.incredibly frustrating. We've made all the investment and we're finding
:21:59. > :22:01.it's not a level playing field. We can't compete on something that is
:22:02. > :22:06.actually cheaper to product. Our birds lay a lot of eggs. They eat as
:22:07. > :22:10.little feed as possible. We market them as efficiently as possible. So
:22:11. > :22:15.how can someone transport eggs miles across Europe to arrive in the
:22:16. > :22:20.market here cheaper than our British eggs can get there? Elwyn strong lip
:22:21. > :22:24.suspects he's being undercut by cheap, illegal imports. Government
:22:25. > :22:27.inspect ors from the animal health and veterinary laboratories told
:22:28. > :22:33.Inside Out that they found no evidence of illegally produced eggs
:22:34. > :22:37.in the UK, despite carrying out thousands of checks. The egg
:22:38. > :22:41.inspectors examine whole eggs, but it's ease why I to tell where an egg
:22:42. > :22:45.is still in its shell comes from. It's labelled with the country of
:22:46. > :22:49.origin and the production method. As soon as you break the egg, it loses
:22:50. > :22:55.its identity. And many in the egg industry believe
:22:56. > :22:59.this may be a way that eggs from battery cages could get into UK
:23:00. > :23:04.foods. You or I when we go into a shop, we can look what type of egg
:23:05. > :23:09.we want and make our decision. However, when an egg is taken out of
:23:10. > :23:13.its shell, our concern is that it loses its provenance. You haven't
:23:14. > :23:19.got the shell, that number on it. Then, of course, that product could
:23:20. > :23:25.potentially travel into different countries. How can the consumer
:23:26. > :23:29.avoid eating an egg that might be coming from a battery cage? It's
:23:30. > :23:35.more difficult when it's one step removed. In other words, when it's
:23:36. > :23:42.made into a cake or ice`cream or whatever. Then you don't see it. But
:23:43. > :23:45.then the own us `` onus falls on the food manufacturer to make sure that
:23:46. > :23:50.the food supply chain is right. Terry Jones is the communications
:23:51. > :23:53.director for the Food and Drink Federation, which represents a large
:23:54. > :23:59.section of manufacturers. He says the commission should have done more
:24:00. > :24:02.to sort out noncompliance in Europe. Manufacturers have done all this
:24:03. > :24:05.work around specification and traceability, while at the same
:24:06. > :24:09.time, trying to keep the lights on and trying to keep much loved
:24:10. > :24:12.British brands on the shelf, but the ultimate responsibility for this has
:24:13. > :24:15.to rely on the commission. They should have driven the egg producers
:24:16. > :24:21.much harder in some of these countries. While there are still
:24:22. > :24:25.some concerns about battery farmed egged from inside the European
:24:26. > :24:30.Union, what about the rest of the world? Countries like America, for
:24:31. > :24:34.example, have virtually all of their egg`laying hens in barren battery
:24:35. > :24:39.cages, in the types of system that we have banned, quite rightly, in
:24:40. > :24:44.Britain and Europe. Cruel was and is the battery system? The battery cage
:24:45. > :24:50.system is perhaps the worst of the factory farmed sips Thames. It keep
:24:51. > :24:54.`` systems. It keeps hens in tiny cages where they can't stretch their
:24:55. > :24:59.wings even tluchout their lives. It's a barren system and their bones
:25:00. > :25:04.become so Brittle they can simply snap from under them. Legally, an
:25:05. > :25:09.egg from outside the European Union doesn't have to comply with EU
:25:10. > :25:13.welfare legislation at all. Last year, there was an egg shortage in
:25:14. > :25:20.the UK when the battery cage ban came in. Prices rose sharply, so
:25:21. > :25:23.what did manufacturers do then? In certain cases, the functional
:25:24. > :25:28.aspects of egg could be replaced by the product, for instance, in
:25:29. > :25:35.glazing of products, but it is true to say that manufacturers also
:25:36. > :25:40.worked with DEFRA to identify and ensure that we could keep the lights
:25:41. > :25:45.on in factories and in some cases, that meant we needed to go beyond
:25:46. > :25:49.the EU to find suppliers of egg. Some British manufacturers coped
:25:50. > :25:55.with the egg shortage by paying higher prices. Others used imports
:25:56. > :25:59.from outside the European Union. America, Argentina and the Ukraine.
:26:00. > :26:04.This is a major concern to us here in the United Kingdom, as well as,
:26:05. > :26:08.my colleagues in other European countries as well. Whilst we have
:26:09. > :26:15.the highest animal welfare standards in the world, in the UK, and across
:26:16. > :26:21.Europe, we are not allowed to prevent eggs or egg products coming
:26:22. > :26:24.into the European Union from countries which still use the
:26:25. > :26:29.conventional battery cage system. You have to remember, this system
:26:30. > :26:33.was considered cruel, hence why it was banned at the beginning of last
:26:34. > :26:36.year. We contacted the major supermarkets and asked them what
:26:37. > :26:41.they're doing to make sure their food doesn't contain battery caged
:26:42. > :26:45.eggs? They were all confident that their own brands were compliant and
:26:46. > :26:49.told us they expected their British manufacturers to comply. When it
:26:50. > :26:55.came to global brands, we either didn't get an answer or were told
:26:56. > :26:58.that the manufacturer met legal requirements in their own country.
:26:59. > :27:03.Every hen in the European Union should be looked after at least as
:27:04. > :27:09.well as these. Elwyn is confident his birds are content. The hen is
:27:10. > :27:12.warm. It is dry. It is not got to actually worry about predators. We
:27:13. > :27:17.protect them. We keep them indoors and the environment is controlled.
:27:18. > :27:21.They are happy. In Britain, we're very careful to police the welfare
:27:22. > :27:31.of our hens, but how can we know what conditions they come from when
:27:32. > :27:35.eggs are now a global business? Well, that's nearly all for this
:27:36. > :27:42.week. Before we go, let's look at what's coming up on next week's
:27:43. > :27:46.programme: We investigate why violet crimes against sex workers are going
:27:47. > :27:51.unpunished. The police aren't focussing on the criminals, who are
:27:52. > :27:56.raping, killing women. What they're doing is arresting women for being
:27:57. > :28:01.in prostitution. What they should do is protect those women. We reveal
:28:02. > :28:05.the secret origins of the humble tin can. The next time you reach into
:28:06. > :28:10.your cupboard and pull one out, remember, it changed the world. It's
:28:11. > :28:17.all down to what happened in this corner of south`east London and due
:28:18. > :28:19.to one very canny engineer. And find out how residents are
:28:20. > :28:24.inning beforing a touch of Country Life to the heart of Tottenham. We
:28:25. > :28:27.are getting people to train them into growing their own food and
:28:28. > :28:28.getting them into gardening, getting them outdoors, getting them fit and
:28:29. > :28:40.getting this emto eat it as well. That's all from this week's Inside
:28:41. > :28:45.Out London. If you've missed any of tonight's show, catch up on the
:28:46. > :28:48.iPlayer. Head to the website: Bbc.co.uk/Inside Out and then just
:28:49. > :28:49.click on London. Thanks very much for watching. I'll see you next
:28:50. > :29:20.week. This is your 92nd update.
:29:21. > :29:23.New developments in the search for Madeleine McCann. Police have
:29:24. > :29:24.released e`fits of the man they want to speak to.