No fipronil found in Luxembourg farm eggs

Laboratory analysis of egg samples from two Luxembourgish farms showed no traces of the insecticide fipronil found in contaminated eggs, it has been confirmed.

Food safety authorities last week took samples of eggs from two farms in Luxembourg where a Belgian cleaning company was suspected of having used fipronil -- an insecticide commonly used in veterinary products to get rid of fleas, lice and ticks.

It was believed a cleaning company from the Namur province might have used the insecticide while working on the farms.

It has now been confirmed that the company only intervened once and that the disinfection of the barns was carried out by the farm owners.

The ministry of agriculture, viticulture and consumer protection and the ministry of health announced in a statement that the "laboratory analysis show an absence of fipronil in the samples taken in the Luxembourgish farms".

(Heledd Pritchard, heledd.pritchard@wort.lu, +352 49 93 459)