Millions of eggs were pulled from supermarket shelves in more than a dozen European countries in late July 2017 \u2013 and as far as Hong Kong and South Korea \u2013 after it was discovered that some had been contaminated with the insecticide fipronil<\/a>.<\/p>\n On July 20, 2017, a notification from Belgian officials via the EU RASFF portal alerted that fipronil had been found in eggs produced by some Netherlands farms at concentrations from 0.0031 to 1.2 mg\/kg.<\/p>\n The UK\u2019s Food Standards Agency (FSA) said 700,000 eggs imported to Britain had been affected, according to the BBC\u2019s review of the pesticide contamination crisis<\/a>. The episode, which shut down 180 farms for further testing, turned into the largest egg recall in Europe. The scandal may hit Dutch farmers hard<\/a>, given that 60 to 70 percent of Dutch eggs are exported to countries like Germany, which in 2016 received about 5 billion eggs from the Netherlands.<\/p>\n Fipronil scandal leads to largest egg recall in European history & likely more to come #foodfraud<\/a> https:\/\/t.co\/PihygXBfyb<\/a><\/p>\n — Prof Chris Elliott OBE (@QUBFoodProf) August 8, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n