Editor’s note: Today Food Safety News takes a look back at the most significant outbreaks in the United States in 2018. As in the past, our year-end coverage is not merely a list of individual
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Recalls show foodborne threats continue
Editor’s note: Today Food Safety News takes a look back at the most significant recalls in the United States in 2018. As in past years, our year-end coverage is not merely a list of individual
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U.S. representative wants to know what FDA is doing to ensure egg safety
A day after the CDC reported two dozen more people have been confirmed with Salmonella infections traced to eggs, a member of Congress asked the head of the Food and Drug Administration to explain what
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Eggs contaminated with Salmonella recalled across Germany
Salmonella in organic eggs has prompted a recall from multiple retailers in more than 10 German states.
The company Eifrisch Vermarktung GmbH & Co. KG issued a recall after detecting Salmonella Enteritidis during an internal
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CDC says Rose Acre Farms egg outbreak ‘appears to be over’
A 10-state Salmonella Braenderup outbreak associated with the largest egg recall since 2010 is apparently over, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Originally announced April 16 as a nine-state incident with
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Egg farmers not defined by bad actors; industry is safe, clean
Today’s opinion article (May 26, 2018) by Roy Costa RS, MS, entitled “Rose Acres Farms: Another Bad Actor, or a Deeper Problem” deserves a rebuttal from the nation’s egg farmers.
Costa served as an expert
Rose Acre Farms: Another Bad Actor, Or a Deeper Problem?
The disgusting truth about industrial egg production is “it stinks”. Sanitation in such environments stretches the imagination when you think of a million birds trapped in cages in huge shed-type structures called “laying houses” and
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DeLauro pushes FDA for answers on egg outbreak investigation
Connecticut democrat Rep. Rosa DeLauro Monday sent a letter to FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb asking for additional information regarding the ongoing investigation of a Salmonella outbreak traced to shelled eggs. The outbreak is currently responsible
More illnesses confirmed in Salmonella outbreak traced to eggs
Additional illnesses continue to be confirmed in an outbreak of Salmonella traced to eggs from Rose Acre Farms. Nine states have reported infected people. The farm has recalled more than 207 million eggs.
Since the
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Rodents, insects, poor sanitation found at Rose Acre egg facility
Inspector observations shared with the complex manager at Hyde County Egg, owned by Rose Acre Farms, shortly before the announcement of the multistate outbreak of Salmonella Braenderup don’t paint a pretty picture.
FDA’s Form 483,
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U.S. eggs linked to Salmonella outbreak were also sent overseas
Shell eggs from an Indiana farm that have been recalled in the United States because a Salmonella outbreak were also shipped to several other countries.
Rose Acre Farms of Seymour, IN, recalled 207 million eggs
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