Insecticide-tainted eggs traced and destroyed in Sweden
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STOCKHOLM, Aug. 8 (Xinhua) -- Work to track down eggs with traces of the insecticide Fipronil and supplied by a poultry farm in the Netherlands is now over, Swedish public television news broadcaster SVT reported Tuesday.
The last shipment of 5,500 eggs, delivered last week to a wholesaler in Gothenburg, has been stopped.
"We're done with our work. That's all we can do to track down and stop the eggs," Bernadette Weber, head of the environmental administration in Gothenburg, told SVT.
Eggs in a delivery of the same size a week earlier were distributed to restaurants in Sweden and have been destroyed or eaten.
"In the past two weeks about 11,000 eggs were delivered. About half were stopped. The shipment received a week before that was distributed primarily to restaurants in the Gothenburg area," Weber said.
According to the National Food Agency, the wholesaler in Gothenburg appears to be the only one in Sweden to receive shipments of the tainted Dutch eggs.
The food agency has said that those who have eaten the tainted eggs need not worry.
"According to our calculations, which are based on Fipronil levels measured and Swedish eating habits, the eggs that have been consumed do not pose a health risk to the adults or the children who ate them," Petra Fohgelberg, an inspector with the Swedish National Food Agency, said in a press release.
The wholesaler in Gothenburg will continue to work with the Dutch company, which is now supplying other more carefully monitored eggs.
Millions of contaminated eggs were withdrawn from the market last week in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and Switzerland, after it was discovered that the eggs had traces of Fipronil. Enditem
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