N° 3 – September 2017
Monthly Electronic Newsletter of Sertox (Latin-American Portal of Toxicology) – Year 1

The 2017 Fipronil eggs contamination is an incident in Europe and Asia involving the spread of fipronil insecticide which contaminated human consumed chicken eggs and egg products. Chicken eggs were found to contain fipronil and distributed to 15 European Union countries, Switzerland, and Hong Kong. Fipronil contaminated eggs may have been sold for a long time prior to the discovery of high levels. Fipronil was used in a remedy to destroy the poultry mite. Read more in WP. The logo of this number is about this. There are more notices in this number. Untill next. JCP