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News Source : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/aug/07/eggs-contaminated-with-insecticide-may-have-entered-uk-eu-warns
— Eggs contaminated with a toxic insecticide harmful to humans may have reached shops in the UK. British food safety authorities were alerted over the weekend that eggs imported from Germany could be dangerous the European commission said in Brussels on Monday. Officials in France Sweden and Switzerland have also been informed of a risk to consumers. A spokeswoman for the commission Anna Kaisa Itkonen said it was up to the Swedes Swiss French and to the UK national authorities to check . British food safety inspectors were trying to trace 21 000 eggs imported from affected farms in the Netherlands between March and June a spokesman for the Food Standards Agency told the Guardian. Prof Chris Elliott director of the Institute for Global Food Security at Queen s University in Belfast praised the watchdog s quick response to the crisis but warned it could be difficult to track down the eggs. He expected that most would have gone into the processed food industry. It will go into bakery where they are buying a lot of powdered egg he said. If they are sold as shelled eggs they are most likely just going into a sandwich factory somewhere. Millions of eggs have been recalled from shops and warehouses in Belgium the Netherlands and Germany in recent weeks after some were found to contain high levels of the insecticide fipronil a common ingredient in veterinary products for getting rid of fleas lice and ticks. It is banned from being used to treat animals destined for human consumption. Millions of eggs removed from European shelves over toxicity fears Read more According to the World Health Organization the toxic substance can damage the liver thyroid glands and kidneys if ingested in large amounts over time. The FSA was informed through an alert by German authorities on Saturday Itkonen said. She said the information was shared as a precautionary measure. In a statement released after the commission s comments the FSA acknowledged that eggs from affected farms on the continent had reached the UK but said it did not believe any were currently on sale. Following concerns raised in the Netherlands about a substance called fipronil which has been used inappropriately in cleaning products on chicken farms we have identified that a very small number of eggs have been distributed to the UK from the farms affected the FSA said. The numbers of eggs involved is very small and the risk to public health is very low but we are urgently investigating the distribution of these eggs in the UK. The statement added We are working closely with the businesses that have received eggs from affected farms–
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