Food Poisoning Blog

A federal judge has approved a $12 million settlement between Virginia-based Peanut Corp. of America (PCA) and 120 plaintiffs in a lawsuit stemming from the 2008 Salmonella outbreak that was linked to peanut products made by the firm.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Salmonella-tainted peanut butter and peanut paste made [...]

The Salmonella outbreak associated with shell eggs is raising serious questions about federal oversight of the industry. According to USA Today, US Department of Agriculture (USDA) staff were regularly on site at both Wright County Egg and Hillandale Farms prior to the outbreak and recalls. As part of an industry-paid program, the USDA egg graders [...]

The investigation of Salmonella-tainted eggs that have sickened nearly 1,500 people across the country now involves a Minnesota firm that provides an ingredient in hen feed. According to the Des Moines Register, Central Bi-Products, part of Farmers Union Industries, produced meat and bone meal that tested positive for Salmonella at a feed mill operated [...]

Filth - that’s pretty much what Food & Drug Administration (FDA) inspectors found at two egg producers linked to the current nationwide Salmonella outbreak that has sickened nearly 1,500 people.  Details of August  inspections at Iowa’s Wright County Egg (also known and  Quality Egg) and Hillandale  Farms are contained  on Form 483 reports posted [...]

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 [...]