Radio Taiwan International
Date: 2017-08-27

Taiwan’s Food and Drug Administration is continuing to conduct tests on the nation’s

Taiwan’s Food and Drug Administration is continuing to conduct tests on the nation’s eggs. (CNA photo)

eggs in an effort to prevent consumers from eating eggs tainted with insecticide. So far, authorities have removed from the shelves about one million eggs containing an excessive amount of the insecticide Fipronil.

This latest food scandal came to light after the Council of Agriculture decided to conduct spot tests following a recent tainted egg scare in Europe. Of 45 samples, three were found to contain Fipronil residue of up to 153 ppb, which is 30 times the amount deemed safe by the EU. Authorities say that it is dangerous to eat just one and a half eggs with those levels of the insecticide.

As of last Friday, agriculture officials have identified 44 egg farms which have turned out tainted eggs. They then went to stores to track down and destroy eggs that originated at those farms.    [FULL  STORY]