Photo: DPAA German state minister charged on Wednesday that over three times more eggs contaminated with the insecticide fipronil had entered the country than the national government has admitted. While Berlin puts the total at 10.7 million eggs, the agriculture minister of the state of Lower Saxony said that 35 million possibly tainted eggs had made it to his state alone from the Netherlands. The state minister, Christian Meyer of the ecologist Greens party, accused Berlin of "playing down the problem" and said his figures were backed by EU data. Belgium became the first country to officially notify the EU's food safety alert system of the presence of tainted eggs on July 20th, followed by the Netherlands and Germany. READ ALSO: Millions of chickens face cull in tainted eggs health scandal

Source: The Local August 17, 2017 07:38 UTC