Bulgarian Food Safety Agency Finds 2nd Shipment of Egg Yolk Powder with Fipronil

A new shipment of egg yolk powder with fipronil, delivered from Germany, was identified by the Bulgarian Food Safety Agency (BFSA), the Agriculture Ministry said on 29^th of August.

The new shipment included a total of 500 kg of fipronil-affected egg yolk delivered to Bulgaria.

A laboratory analysis identified fipronil above the allowed levels.

Almost the whole amount of 407 kg was banned from distribution and will be destroyed.

About 93 kg from the shipment of egg yolk were used for production of 12,500 kg of ice-cream, which was also withdrawn from the market and banned from distribution.

On 28^th of August 2017, the European Commission confirmed the notification prepared by BFSA under the RASSF Rapid Alert System. Through this, all Member States have been informed that another batch of egg yolk powder was contaminated with fipronil and is distributed throughout the European market.

In order to prevent distribution of fipronil-affected eggs and egg products on the Bulgarian market, BFSA is undertaking checks in all egg-producing farms, eggs and egg products warehouses, in the country.

Any consignment of eggs and egg products to Bulgaria, originating in the EU, for which there is no evidence of a laboratory test for the absence of fipronil contamination, wil be subject to a laboratory analysis. Similar measures apply to producers of eggs and egg products in Bulgaria. The first result of an analysis of eggs originating in Poland is now available and it is negative.

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