Retiree threatened with $200,000 fine over home egg business
A Queensland retiree has insisted that he will continue to sell eggs from the chooks in his backyard despite authorities threatening him with a fine up to $200,000.
Murray Koina said that when he first received the email about his business he thought it was a scam and ignored it.
It wasn't until they pushed for him to stop that he immediately realised things were getting serious.
"They said it was a health issue, someone could get poisoned by an egg," Murray told Today show hosts Karl Stefanovic and Sarah Abo.
"Well my mother grew eggs from when I was a baby and we've eaten them and given them away and sold them and I don't think anyone's died yet - and I'm 73."
Murray added that he could get a licence to avoid the fine and continue his little business, but that costs $630 upfront and then around $450 every year to renew it, so it's just not worth it.
"I sell around a dozen cartons a week at $4 a dozen so that wouldn't make sense," he said.
"I can't say what I really feel about it, but I'm really, you know, p---ed off."
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