Fipronil contaminated millions of poultry eggs in the EU, Hong Kong, and South Korea last year when a disinfectant company illegally used it on chicken farms to treat mites.

Fipronil is a popular pesticide, often used to de-flea household pets such as dogs and cats. It is also effective at treating red lice, which are commonly found in poultry.

Watchdog: FDA food recall procedures put consumers at risk 03:12. The move does not mean that eggs contaminated with Fipronil have actually entered those countries, she said.

Fipronil is an insecticide that - in an ideal world - should never find its way into a chicken coop. But somehow it got mixed in with "Dega 16," a cleaning agent and sanitizer used on many poultry ...

The owners of a company which sold illegal de-lousing chemicals to hundreds of egg producers, have been jailed for one year by a court in Zwolle. Judges said the two owners of Chickfriend knowingly ...

Fipronil, imidacloprid reduce honeybee mitochondrial activity. ScienceDaily . Retrieved May 29, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2014 / 08 / 140806154013.htm ...

Common insecticide disrupts aquatic communities: A mesocosm-to-field ecological risk assessment of fipronil and its degradates in U.S. streams. Science Advances , 2020; 6 (43): eabc1299 DOI: 10. ...

Fipronil, a common insecticide, disrupts aquatic communities in the U.S. Colorado State University. Journal Science Advances Funder United States Geological Survey National Water Quality ...

Researchers in the UK report new evidence that the pesticide fipronil, not the neonicotinoid imidacloprid, caused a massive die-off of honeybees in France from 1994 to 1998 (Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci ...