The French agriculture minister says 13 batches of contaminated eggs were delivered from the Netherlands to France in July.<br /><br />We don’t know how many eggs, but they were all tainted with the insecticide fipronil .. used to control lice and fleas.<br /><br />The amount of the toxin on the eggs is higher than the recommended amount for children. <br /><br />The effects include vertigo, nausea and, vomiting, according to toxicologist Alfred Bernard who pointed out that lethal cases are very rare: “Maybe one case every thirty years. It would really need to be consumed in huge doses.”<br /><br />The affected eggs were delivered to two food factories in the west of France that use eggs for ingredients.<br /><br />It emerged last week that a pest controller used fipronil at Dutch poultry companies over the last year. <br /><br />Millions of eggs have been taken off the shelves in Germany and the Netherlands as a precaution.<br /><br />Prosecutors in both countries are reported to have opened investigations into possible criminal offences.<br />
