Photo: DPABelgian officials admitted Saturday they knew in early June there was a potential problem over insecticide-contaminated eggs but kept it secret because of an ongoing fraud investigation. We understand that people have questions about public health and we are trying to answer them," she added. Belgian and German supermarkets have cleared eggs from their shelves, and in Germany and the Netherlands several million eggs from Dutch farms have already been recalled. "Someone has clearly proceeded with criminal intent to contaminate (the eggs) with a banned product," Schmidt told the daily Bild. One batch of eggs posing in particular posed "an acute danger to public health", the agency said.

Source: The Local August 06, 2017 08:15 UTC