Egg sizes

[Polly Fouracre]

Does anyone know if there are regulations governing the size of eggs? I find myself having to buy eggs for the first time in years and bought some "large" free-rangers from Tesco.Then I bought some "small" from the Farmer's Market.
Looking at them there didn't seem to be any difference in size so I weighed them.
The large egg weighed exactly 2oz. The small a fraction under,such a fraction that it made no difference.The small eggs were also more than a pound a dozen cheaper!!
Any views on this?

[Hazel at the Hill]

And the moral of the story is 'don't shop at Tesco'!

No, seriously, there are regs on this - here's the British egg council egg size list...

http://www.britegg.co.uk/ukeggs05/ukeggs3.html

[TPeers]

A very useful site - thanks Hazel!

My girls seem to lay a fairly average medium size egg!