About a thousand people flocked to the small Belgian town of Malmedy on Tuesday to eat a giant omelette made of 6,500 eggs, despite the country being at the centre of a scandal involving tainted eggs.
Belgium became the first country last month to officially notify the EU's food safety alert system of the presence of eggs contaminated by the insecticide fipronil, followed by the Netherlands and Germany.
The insecticide, which can harm human health, has since been discovered in eggs in 14 other
European countries since the scandal came to light on August 1 and has even been found as far afield as Hong Kong. It has forced millions of eggs to be removed from supermarket shelves and the closure of more than 150 farms in the Netherlands.
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