Practically all European Union member states are now affected by the Fipronil scandal – eggs have been infected with pesticide. Millions of eggs had to be pulled from stores, but finally the scandal also reached Hungary too, when contaminated German eggs were put on store shelves marked as Hungarian.
It must be noted, though, that we aren’t talking about a large quantity of eggs here. What about Hungarian egg consumption? Back around 1990s our annual egg production was 4.5 billion, but today the country’s egg output is only 2.5 billion a year. This means that Hungarians eat about 12 eggs a months.
The fact that German eggs’ shells were marked with a Hungarian stamp shows that the ‘Buy Hungarian’ movement has reached its goal. Having found contaminated eggs, the National Food Chain Safety Office (NÉBIH) started issuing certificates for those egg producers which made a declaration that they had never used pesticides containing Fipronil; so far 15 certificates have been issued. //
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