Tests Revealed Some Imported Egg Products in Austria Are Contaminated With Fipronil
(World News Austria)

According to Austria´s food safety agency, tests revealed some imported egg products in Austria were contaminated with a potentially harmful insecticide - another country affected by the international health scare, Reuters reported on Monday. Millions of chicken eggs were taken off European supermarket shelves in response to concerns regarding the use of the insecticide fipronil and hundreds of thousands of hens may be slaughtered in the Netherlands, the report said. `Fipronil was detected in a quarter of the samples,` Austria`s Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES) said in a statement, adding 80 samples were extracted from a range of products. The contamination was discovered in...