Tainted Eggs Prompt Scare in Europe
Anna-Kaisa Itkonen, a European Commission spokeswoman, said, "We do not know if the eggs are contaminated or not,
but because of these notifications, it’s now up to the national authorities to check." The scare over contaminated eggs, which began in Belgium, has led supermarkets there and in Germany and the Netherlands to clear shelves of the product as the crisis entered its third week.
7, 2017
THE HAGUE — The European Union on Monday notified the food safety authorities in Britain, France, Sweden
and Switzerland to be on the lookout for contamination in eggs after a food scare in Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands.
In Germany, the supermarket chain Aldi withdrew all eggs from sale after the authorities said
that about three million eggs imported from the Netherlands had been affected.
The scare began July 19 when the government of Belgium said that fipronil had been found in eggs produced there.
The country’s biggest supermarket chain, Albert Heijn, stopped selling many eggs last week,
but the company said that eggs were back on sale as normal on Monday.
Major supermarket chains in Belgium, including Delhaize and Colruyt, have stopped selling eggs from affected farms.
