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.
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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
This isn’t your typical egg farm. In Elkhart, Iowa, about 70 miles south of Wright County Egg–the mega-farm at the center of a 550 million egg recall tied
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In less than two weeks (on Sept. 14), the House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce, headed by
About 30 people who attended a party in Vernon County, Wisconsin, in August were later sickened by Salmonella poisoning, and eggs are suspected in the outbreak.
But the director of
Kevin Keener, associate professor of Purdue University in Indiana, said the rapid cooling of eggs after laying and processing would “significantly reduce the ability of Salmonella to grow inside the
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