Following the April 2021 sentence of two owners of companies involved in distributing and applying fipronil in poultry farms in the Netherlands between 2015 and 2017, their compatriots in Belgium have now also been sentenced to prison terms.  The sentences culminate an investigation initiated in 2017 to determine how fipronil manufactured in Romania was incorporated in illegally manufactured insecticides used in Dutch and Belgian chicken houses to treat mite infestation.

The principals of a Belgian company AgroRemijsen that prepared and distributed the illegal insecticide Dega-16 were sentenced in one case to a year in prison and a nominal fine with the second person involved receiving a suspended sentence.  The fines and action by the government of Belgium were inconsistent with the damage caused by fipronil contamination.  Farmers received more than $5 million in compensation for the loss of their flocks.  The Federal Agency for the Safety of the Food Chain was granted $21 million and the Public Waste Agency of Flanders received $2 million to compensate for their response to the massive recall and disposal of eggs and contaminated hens.