Contaminated eggs: Netherlands failed to sound alarm, says Belgium

Food safety scandal deepens as Dutch authorities are accused of not passing on early discovery of fipronil in eggsEurope’s latest food scandal has deepened as Belgium accused the Dutch authorities of failing to sound the alarm after discovering eggs were being contaminated with a harmful insecticide as early as November last year.The Belgian agriculture minister, Denis Ducarme, told a parliamentary hearing that his officials had obtained an internal Dutch document that reported “the