BRUSSELS — Dutch investigators arrested two suspects on Thursday over Europe’s widening tainted egg scandal, as Denmark announced that 20 contaminated tonnes had been sold there. The scandal also spread eastwards on Thursday as a tonne of contaminated egg yolk was found in Romania, and 21 boxes of the tainted eggs were discovered in Slovakia. It also reached Luxembourg, while Britain said it had imported 700,000 eggs from Dutch farms linked to the scandal -- far more than first thought. In joint raids with Belgium, Dutch prosecutors said they had arrested "two managers at the company that allegedly used the substance at poultry farms," with Dutch media naming the suspects’ firm as Chickfriend. The eggs at the centre of the scandal have mainly come from the Netherlands, followed by Belgium and Germany.

Source: Viet Nam News August 11, 2017 04:45 UTC