The egg recall list expanded Friday with one more Iowa egg producer joining the list. Eggs are causing 1,000 people in 10 states to get sick from salmonella. The Food and Drug Administration reports that this is why there has been the recall. The salmonella troubles have made Congress interested in an investigation. July 9 was when new egg safety rules came out. The FDA was given the authority to do this. The FDA has said that salmonella wouldn’t have even happened had the laws been in place already.
Egg producer has history of violations
Wright County Egg recalled 380 million eggs, says the FDA, when the largest egg recall ever recorded began last week. Another 180 million eggs were recalled by Hillendale Farms. Quality Egg, supplied by Hillendale, was shown to have salmonella cases by the FDA. Monday was the day the House Energy and Commerce Committee asked for documents from the business. CNN reported this. Wright County Egg and Quality Egg are owned by the DeCoster agribusiness empire in the Midwest and Northeast. There have always been questions about how DeCoster has handled business. In June, Jack DeCoster admitted to 10 civil counts of animal cruelty in Maine. DeCoster paid $ 3.6 million in a fine in 1996 because he allegedly had minors working on a Maine chicken farm in a sweatshop. In 2000, Iowa’s attorney general named DeCoster a “habitual violator” of state environmental laws following discharges of manure from hog-farming operations.
Getting eggs a bit safer with new rules
The USDA was in charge of inspecting eggs until July 9. Between May and July, there have been three times more than normal reports of salmonella, which is about 2,000, reports the Center for Disease control. The inspection duties lay between the FDA and USDA now, reports the Wall Street Journal. Farms now have to test eggs and facilities for salmonella along with safeguarding feed and water from contamination and chicks and hens have to be bought from those who monitor salmonella. Farms have one year to change their standard.
Get your egg hot with salmonella
Consumers are being advised to throw out or take back eggs in cartons stamped with certain packing dates and location codes. The Los Angeles times reports that salmonella is always a concern when eating raw eggs. Salmonella is not something you are able to taste, smell or see. People have been contracting salmonella poisoning probably from making hollandaise sauce or eating their eggs sunny side up. Cooking an egg all the way can really help. This will kill any bacteria from salmonella. Simply make sure you cook the yoke. That is important. You’ll be fine if the egg is pasteurized. But consumers with eggs on the recall list should avoid any risk and get their money back.
CNN
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Wall Street Journal
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Los Angeles Times
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