Train wreck in slow motion

No less than 17 countries had to deal with tainted eggs originating from the Netherlands and Belgium recently, with recalls happening all over the place. The eggs had minimal traces of the insecticide fipronil in them, a substance that hardly anyone had heard of before until the recent egg crisis. Unfortunately the eggs on foreign supermarket shelves represented only a fraction of the eggs involved. The real crisis occurred in the countries of origin, especially among Dutch, Belgian and a couple