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Salmonella Heidelberg Found in Iowa Poultry Houses

By Dan Flynn on September 10, 2012

The company that took over Iowa’s two most troubled egg businesses now has food safety problems of it own to deal with at its recently acquired facilities. Centrum Valley Farms acquired all the Iowa egg…
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DeCoster Knew About Contamination for Months Before Recall

By Dan Flynn on June 4, 2012

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 its facility were recalled two years…
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Egg Baron “Jack” DeCoster: Focus of Criminal Probe

By News Desk on May 17, 2012

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.

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The newspaper, quoting defense lawyers, said the

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Egg Farmer May Face Punitive Damages

By Mary Rothschild on March 26, 2011

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 Bennett said plaintiffs suing Austin J. “Jack”

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Food Safety News Naughty List 2010

By Dan Flynn on December 24, 2010

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 they should not expect anything special

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‘Jack’ is Back Selling Eggs in Iowa

By Dan Flynn on December 1, 2010

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 so much as a single

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Following Chicken Tracks in New 300,000 Egg Recall

By Dan Flynn on November 9, 2010

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 you eat 100 eggs, they

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DeCoster Gets Warning, Hillandale Sales OK’d

By Dan Flynn on October 19, 2010

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 obligatory warning letter from the

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Egg Recall Hearing Rescheduled for Wednesday

By Helena Bottemiller on September 21, 2010

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 for tomorrow at noon EST.

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Federal Egg Recall Investigation Widens

By Helena Bottemiller on September 2, 2010

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 Administration and the Department of

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