The scandal over contaminated eggs in Germany is growing. To protect their customers from the toxic Fipronil, the discounter Aldi has pulled all eggs from its stores. But what exactly is Fipronil?

Scientists are urgently trying to determine the causes of colony collapse disorder and the alarming population declines of honeybees. The effects of fipronil and imidacloprid on honeybees has been ...

(Beyond Pesticides, June 12, 2019) A new study finds that the widespread insecticide fipronil causes transgenerational toxicity across generations of zebrafish. Fipronil, already known to be highly ...

BRUSSELS-- Experts are analyzing contaminated egg products imported from the Netherlands to two establishments in France, one of four countries the European Union notified Monday that some eggs ...

There is ‘unlikely’ to be a health risk for those consuming fipronil-contaminated chicken eggs, the German Federal Institute for risk assessment said in response to the recent egg contamination scare ...

Chemicals known to affect brains of common garden birds, and to kill unborn chicks, found in most feather samples ...

Analytical labs have told FoodQualityNews they have experienced a big increase in demand for testing mainly from EU countries following the fipronil egg contamination scandal. Fipronil was detected in ...

Fipronil is banned for use on crops in the EU, China, Vietnam and California A “wildly toxic” chemical used to combat fire ants and the varroa mite in Australia is banned in Europe and harmful to ...

Millions of eggs have been pulled from supermarket shelves in more than a dozen European countries - including the UK - after it was discovered that some had been contaminated with the potentially ...