Food Poisoning Blog

How effective is our nation’s food safety monitoring system? Not very, considering this month’s recall of half a billion eggs. Those eggs, produced by Iowa’s Wright County Egg and Hillandale Farms, are at the center of a Salmonella outbreak that has sickened nearly 1,500 people in multiple states.
According to an editorial published in today’s [...]

The federal investigation into the source of the nationwide Salmonella Egg outbreak is now focusing on the feed given to hens on the farm.
Officials believe it is possible that contaminated feed given to pullet chickens - those just too young to produce eggs - has created a generation of contaminated egg-laying hens.
More than 1,400 people [...]

The Iowa egg farmer tied to the ongoing nationwide Salmonella outbreak was once a Maryland egg farmer who violated a quarantine on two of his farms and sold contaminated eggs in the past.
According to a Washington Post report, Austin DeCoster - the owner of Wright County Egg and Hillandale Farms in Iowa - once operated [...]

Health officials in Iowa and with the federal government each suspected the two farms since implicated in the nationwide Salmonella Egg outbreak two weeks before the companies issued a massive recall.
At least a half-billion eggs have been recalled by Wright County Egg and Hillandale Farms, the first of which was issued on Aug. 13. But [...]

The Food and Drug Administration has issued information to help consumers determine whether they have eggs implicated in an ongoing nationwide Salmonella outbreak linked to two Iowa farms.
More than 1,400 people have reported getting sick after eating eggs from either Wright County Egg or Hillandale Farms. Nearly a half-billion eggs have been recalled and consumers [...]

At least 20 agents from the Food and Drug Administration have converged upon two Iowa farms at the center of a nationwide recall on about a half-billion eggs due to a Salmonella contamination.
According to a recent USA Today report, the FDA is focusing on Wright County Egg and Hillandale Farms, both in Iowa, looking for [...]

A massive nationwide recall of more than 450 million eggs potentially contaminated with Salmonella bacteria is linked to just one Iowa businessman with a track record of violating health, safety and employment violations.
According to an AP report this weekend, the two farms linked to the nationwide recall of eggs implicated in several hundred illnesses are [...]

TWO THOUSAND - that’s how many Americans may have been sickened with Salmonella from shell eggs now being recalled by Wright County Egg.  What’s worse, officials believe that number will grow before this is all over.
Wright County Egg has issued two recalls in the past  week for its shell eggs.  The recalls came after the [...]

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC)  has traced an out break of typhoid fever  (Salmonella Typhi infections) in California and Nevada to frozen mamey pulp. Mamey, also called zapote or sapote, is mainly grown in Central and South America. Frozen mamey pulp can be bought in grocery stores throughout the US, and packages have a [...]

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA warns U.S. and international customers who purchased frozen mice from Biggers and Callaham LLC, doing business as MiceDirect, that these reptile food products could be contaminated with Salmonella,
Because children, the elderly and those with weakened immune systems are particularly at risk for salmonellosis, they should avoid handling either [...]