Food-related toxin — Netherlands
Discount supermarket chain Aldi is withdrawing all eggs from sale at its more than 4000 stores in Germany as a precaution, it said today [Fri 4 Aug 2017], as a scare over the possible contamination of eggs with insecticide has spread. Traces of insecticide fipronil were found in eggs in Belgium and the Netherlands last month [July 2017], which has led to the temporary shut-down of some poultry farms and to supermarkets halting the sale of eggs from the Netherlands.
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