15.12.2017

Land- en Tuinbouw Organisatie Nederland (LTO) is filing a lawsuit against the country’s food safety authority NVWA, claiming that the agency’s negligence in the way it handled the situation of fipronil use in egg production caused financial losses to the country’s egg producers earlier this year. 
Despite the warning in November 2016, NVWA decided not to investigate the situation until the chemical was detected in eggs in June 2017.
Millions of eggs were recalled and production was halted on 793 poultry farms over the summer after the NVWA discovered that eggs from those farms contain high concentrations of insecticide fipronil. The total cost of the scandal has cost the egg industry up to €175M.