the produce contaminated with fipranol, an insecticide which is banned for use in the food chain. up, on a potentially massive scale. translation: you cannot put your eggs on the market for three months. and so i took the decision to kill the animals, because it is really too expensive. more than 100 farms are affected in the netherlands too, although this one's in the clear. and millions of eggs have now been pulled from supermarket shelves on the continent. the reason, fipranol may be popular for getting rid of fleas on pets, but it can be dangerous to humans. here in the uk, we produce our own eggs, but also import them. and some of the eggs from affected farms have ended up here too. we're not talking about the kind of fresh eggs like these, that we buy off supermarket shelves. the affected eggs went into processed foods, like sandwich fillings and salads. just a few days ago the food standards agency said 21,000 eggs were affected. today, that shot up to 700,000. sounds a lot, but that's just 0.007% of all the eggs we eat every year. there's no reason why people should avoid