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20:32, 11-Aug-2017
EU to hold emergency meeting over contaminated eggs scandal
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The EU on Friday announced that it would hold an emergency meeting of ministers and national regulatory agencies over the contaminated eggs scandal on September 26, calling on countries involved to stop "blaming and shaming".
"Blaming and shaming will bring us nowhere and I want to stop this," EU Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis told Reuters in a statement.
Tensions have risen between agricultural ministers in Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany after traces of moderately toxic insecticide fipronil were found in batches of eggs, linked by authorities to a Dutch supplier of cleaning products.
So far, contaminated eggs have been found in 15 EU countries, as well as non-EU members Switzerland and China's Hong Kong, according to a European Commission spokesman.