700,000 eggs linked to EU scare exported to Britain, watchdog says

Some products have been withdrawn from Sainsbury’s, Morrisons, Waitrose and Asda, according to Food Standards Agency

About 700,000 eggs from Dutch farms implicated in a contamination scare have been distributed to Britain and some supermarket products have been withdrawn, the Food Standards Agency (FSA) has said.

The FSA said investigations into the Fipronil incident in Europe suggested it was “very unlikely” that the eggs posed a risk to public health, but the number of contaminated eggs estimated to have reached the UK is far higher than the 21,000 first estimated.

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