"The judge decided that there is currently enough suspicion to keep the men in custody," the court said in a statement. "The public prosecution service suspects the two managers of a disinfection company of using fipronil at poultry farms in the Netherlands," it said. "Thereby they endangered public health, and there are suspicions they knew that the biocide was banned," the court said. Dutch farmers and retailers this week began counting the costs stemming from fipronil scandal, which has now affected 17 European countries and stretched as far as Hong Kong. Initial damages to poultry farms were estimated at at least 150 million euros ($175 million), a spokesman for the ZLTO federation of southern Dutch farmers and gardeners said Monday.

Source: The Nation Bangkok August 15, 2017 12:56 UTC