- Title: Belgian town scrambles giant omelette as egg contamination scare looms
- Date: 15th August 2017
- Summary: (SOUNDBITE) (French) PRESIDENT AND GRANDMASTER OF THE LOCAL BRANCH OF "THE WORLD FRATERNITY OF KNIGHTS OF THE GIANT OMELETTE", BENEDICTE MATHY, SAYING: "So this is our annual meeting of "The Fraternity of the Omelette of Malmedy". We make an omelette using 10,000 eggs and we meet up with all our foreign fraternities, our brothers and sisters. This omelette is also given out for free." GIANT PAN BEING HEATED ON FIRE FIRE BURNING UNDER PAN CHEF ADDING BACON BITS TO PAN CHEFS STIRRING BACON IN PAN (SOUNDBITE) (French) PRESIDENT AND GRANDMASTER OF THE LOCAL BRANCH OF "THE WORLD FRATERNITY OF KNIGHTS OF THE GIANT OMELETTE", BENEDICTE MATHY, SAYING: "We've been working with our (egg) producer for 27 years. He is regularly inspected according to FASFC Federal Agency for the Safety of the Food Chain) standards and all that. He's never had any problems, it's really an earnest farm. When we heard about the issue (fipronil contaminated eggs) the producer straight away gave us some news. We're really quite relaxed regarding that problem." VARIOUS OF EGGS BEING POURED INTO PAN WHILE OTHERS STIR
- Embargoed: 29th August 2017 16:00
- Keywords: Eggs omelette fipronil Malmedy Belgium potentially harmful insecticide health scare
- Location: MALMEDY, BELGIUM
- City: MALMEDY, BELGIUM
- Country: Belgium
- Topics: Arts / Culture / Entertainment,Human Interest / Brights / Odd News
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- Story Text: Hundreds of people gathered on a town square in the eastern Belgian city of Malmedy on Tuesday (August 15) to feast on a traditional giant omelette made annually for the past 22 years by the "The World Fraternity of Knights of the Giant Omelette".
The egg, bacon and herb omelette was made with 10,000 eggs and cooked in a four-metre-wide pan before being served to people at the event.
President of the local branch of the giant omelette fraternity Benedicte Mathy said she was confident there would be no issues eating a plate of the omelette, despite an ongoing heath scare linked to eggs contaminated with a potentially harmful insecticide.
Millions of chicken eggs have been pulled from European supermarket shelves as a result of the scare over the use of the insecticide fipronil, and hundreds of thousands of hens may be culled in the Netherlands.
While a large amount of contaminated eggs would need to be eaten to show negative health effects, fipronil is considered moderately toxic and can cause organ damage in humans. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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