A professor says said that the EU’s rapid alert system had failed over the contaminated eggs scandal APThe public was not told that contaminated eggs had entered the country until two days after the Food Standards Agency learnt of the problem. As the regulator admitted for the first time that it was possible that more products were affected, it said that the EU’s Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed notified them a week ago that Britain had received eggs from Dutch farms involved in the scandal over the illegal use of a toxic insecticide. It issued a statement on Monday wrongly claiming that only 21,000 eggs from the affected farms had entered the country and that no products containing them remained on sale. On Thursday the FSA said that the actual number was closer to 700,000, adding that Waitrose, Sainsbury’s, Morrisons…

Source: The Times August 11, 2017 23:03 UTC