MEPs on the European Parliament’s agriculture committee, appalled by the Fipronil tainted eggs scandal, were critical on Thursday 31 August of the slowness of the response of the member states and the Commission, when the malpractice had been uncovered around the end of May (see EUROPE 11851).
Director of the Commission’s DG Health Sabine Jülicher pointed out that the Commission had been informed of the Fipronil contamination on 20 July. She called it a case of non-compliance (referring...