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More Egg Products Contaminated with Pesticides, Government Says

SEOUL, Aug. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – The South Korean government said Wednesday that eggs from four more farms in the country have been found to be contaminated with harmful pesticides, escalating the health scare over tainted egg products here. Some eggs at a farm with 55,000 hens in Cheorwon, 80 kilometers north of Seoul, were [...]

Pesticide Eggs: Wary Retailers Ban Sale of Belgian Products

SEOUL, Aug. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The European Union’s recent acknowledgement that large-scale shipments of eggs from Belgium and the Netherlands may have been contaminated by a pesticide has stores and markets rethinking the sales value of Belgian waffles. The pesticide, Fipronil, is believed to be hazardous to humans. So far, Germany, England, Sweden, Switzerland [...]