Fipronil

Despite egg scandal, Belgium festival cooks up giant omelette

At least a thousand people flocked to the Belgian town of Malmedy to eat the omelette, despite an egg contamination scare caused by the insecticide fipronil.

Two arrested in European egg contamination saga

The detentions and a raids in the Netherlands and Belgium marked another escalation in a widening scandal over eggs tainted with the pesticide Fipronil.

Germany says egg contamination is criminal

Retailers in several European countries have pulled millions of eggs from supermarket shelves as the scare over the use of the insecticide fipronil widened