(ANSA) - Rome, August 23 - Italian police on Wednesday seized
over 92,000 eggs tainted with the pesticide fipronil, impounding
three farms and a packaging centre in central Italy.
Some 60,000 were for human consumption and a further 32,000
for farm animals.
The three sequestered farms contained 27,000 hens.
The seizures were made by police based in Viterbo north of
Rome and Ancona on the Marche coast.
NAS food safety police are probing the suspected use of
fipronil in raising crops for animal feed.
Earlier NAS health and hygiene police said another two cases
of eggs contaminated with fipronil have been found in Italy.
On Tuesday two batches of fipronil-tainted eggs were found in
Campania, after the first cases in Lazio and Marche - after
which it was found in some frozen omelettes in Lombardy.
Police seize over 92,000 tainted eggs (4)
From three farms and packing plant