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Belgium, the Netherlands hatch plan to curb spread of bad eggs

The countries raid premises linked to fraud probe on fipronil contamination

Published Thu, Aug 10, 2017 · 09:50 PM
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DUTCH and Belgian investigators launched joint raids on Thursday over Europe's insecticide-tainted egg scare as Britain said it had imported far more contaminated eggs than originally revealed.

The spiralling scandal also spread to an eighth country, Luxembourg, which announced that it too had found eggs containing fipronil, which can be harmful to human health.

Millions of eggs have been destroyed or taken off the shelves a…

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