Iowa State University’s government-funded Veterinary Diagnostics Laboratory knew that laying eggs produced by DeCoster Farms were likely contaminated with Salmonella months before more than half a billion eggs from
Austin “Jack” DeCoster, son Peter DeCoster, and Patsy Larson, chief financial officer for Quality Egg, are targets of a federal criminal investigation, the Bangor Daily News reported Wednesday.
The newspaper,
An Iowa egg producer at the center of last year’s nationwide outbreak of Salmonella may face punitive damages, a federal judge ruled Friday.
U.S. District Court Judge Mark
It’s Christmas Eve and time for Food Safety News to present its second annual Naughty List. By publishing this list on the day before Christmas, those named will know
Since last August when his egg production was found to be the likely source of a multistate outbreak of Salmonella Enteritidis (SE), “Jack” DeCoster has not been allowed to sell
An old food safety adage says that if one eats a hamburger, it might contain meat from 100 cows. That maxim might have to be expanded to advise that if
In the official documents piling up over the nationwide outbreak of Salmonella, Austin J. “Jack” DeCoster, who may be the nation’s No. 1 egg producer, is getting only the
The congressional panel investigating the recent recall of 550 million
eggs tied to a multistate Salmonella outbreak has again pushed back its food safety
hearing. The hearing is now scheduled
Federal officials are widening their investigation of two Iowa farms at the center of a large-scale egg recall and multistate Salmonella outbreak. The criminal division of the Food and Drug
After she came in third in the Iowa caucuses, Hillary Clinton’s campaign for President received contributions of $2,300 each from Peter and Alina DeCoster of Clarion.
Peter and