The scandal sowed worry about the capacity of the EU authorities and governments to deal with such public health crisis. Are there loopholes in any part of the food supply chain? How to ensure one incident that may pose risk to public health in one EU member state won't spread to other member states? These are among the questions to be answered.

The European Commission in a statement said as many as 19 measures regarding food fraud were agreed during the meeting.

These measures allow member states to exchange views and manage the Fipronil contamination of eggs and egg products with the coordinating efforts of the Commission, said the statement.

Greater importance are attached to the lessons learnt from this incident, especially on how to prevent and detect such incidents and improve the handling of similar crises in the future.

Meanwhile, the agreed measures also highlight the use of the Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF), which remains the primary responsibility of the member states in order to maximize its potentials.

The RASFF, created in 1979, enables information to be shared between its members (EU-28 national food safety authorities, Commission, EFSA, ESA, Norway, Liechtenstein, Iceland and Switzerland).

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