NETHERLANDS DENIES PREVIOUS KNOWLEDGE OF FIPRONIL CONTAMINATION
August 1st, 2017
CLAIMS by the Belgian authorities today (August 9) that the Netherlands knew about eggs contaminated with the toxic insecticide fipronil as early as last year are false, the Netherlands Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (NVWA – Nederlandse Voedsel- en Warenautoriteit) has affirmed.
The scandal has rocked the Dutch eggs business, one of the largest in Europe. It focuses on accusations that Dutch poultry services company ChickFriend used fipronil to rid farms of lice.
But the Dutch food safety authority said it did not have prior knowledge: “The ...
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