Information brought to light during hearings before the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce has led to punitive damages being added to lawsuits against Quality Egg/Wright County
A restaurant in New South Wales, Australia had to pay a penalty when 170 people fell ill with Salmonella after eating there earlier this year.
Investigators with the New South
In a blockbuster-worthy hearing, complete with partisan bickering, a photo slideshow, and a witness pleading the Fifth, Congress yesterday grilled the executives responsible for two Iowa egg farms linked to
Duck eggs are suspected for a spike in Salmonella Typhimurium DT8 cases in the United Kingdom that may be responsible for one death, the country’s Food Standards Agency (FSA)
Hard-E Foods Inc. does not have scheduled processes established by an acidified foods expert for its Pickled Eggs, Garlic Mustard Pickled Eggs, Beet Pickled Eggs, Sweet Pickled Eggs, and Hot
Iowans are so concerned about their state Secretary of Agriculture that the office is directly elected, and now the half billion recall of Iowa eggs may scramble that election.
Democratic
The Congressional panel investigating the recent recall of 550 million eggs tied to a multistate Salmonella outbreak has moved its food safety hearing, originally planned for today, to next week.
Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), ranking member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, yesterday asked committee chairman Ed Towns (D-NY) to hold a hearing “on the coordination–or
Food & Water Watch, a Washington, DC-based advocacy group and active proponent of the pending food safety legislation announced its support for an amendment to exempt certain farmers and processors
Food safety litigation firm Marler Clark LLP filed a petition with the U.S. District Court in Iowa this week to gain access to Wright County Egg, one of the
Real Taste Noodle Manufacture of Chicago, IL announced that the company is recalling its “Egg Noodle” product for possible Salmonella contamination because the egg noodles were made with recalled eggs.
What isn’t being discussed in Congress, during the ongoing debate on the broken federal food safety system, is the root cause of the most serious pathogenic outbreaks in our