Quality Egg, which does business under the name Wright County Egg, faces a fourth lawsuit brought on behalf of a Salmonella outbreak victim by the Seattle law firm Marler Clark. The lawsuit was filed against the egg producer yesterday in Federal District Court in Iowa.
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FDA Finds ‘Objectionable Conditions’ at Egg Farms
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Flies “too numerous to count,” rodents, wild birds, maggots, and open piles of manure four to eight feet high were among the observations released by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration yesterday, illustrating “significant objectionable conditions” at two Iowa egg farms responsible for the recent recall of over half a…
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Massive Egg Recall Prompts Hearing on Food Safety
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Massive Egg Recall Prompts Hearing on Federal Food Safety System
House Energy and Commerce Chairman Henry A. Waxman (D-CA) and Subcommittee Chairman Bart Stupak (D-MI) yesterday announced that the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations will hold a hearing on Sept. 14. scrutinizing the safety of the food supply “in light…
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FDA Salmonella Tests Link 2 Iowa Farms to Outbreak
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FDA Investigators Find Salmonella Linking Iowa Farms to Outbreak, CDC Reports Jump in Illnesses
Food and Drug Administration officials said yesterday their preliminary investigation has identified Salmonella-positive samples, linking two Iowa farms to a multi-state Salmonella outbreak and half-billion egg recall.
According to Sherri McGarry, emergency coordinator at FDA’s Center…
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DeCoster Contributions Went to Clinton in 2008
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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 Alina are the son and daughter-in-law of Austin “Jack” DeCoster, the 5th largest egg producer in the U.S., who is now at…
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Egg Gaps Illustrate Fractured Food Safety System
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Eggs Slip Through the Cracks of a Fractured Food Safety System
DES MOINES, IA–As consumers scramble to check their egg cartons and federal officials investigate two Iowa farms at the center of a half-billion egg recall, it’s becoming clear that no one was overseeing egg safety in Iowa.
In a…
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Half-billion Eggs Recalled, Lawmakers Want Answers
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As a nationwide Salmonella outbreak linked to 550 million recalled eggs continues to unfold, key lawmakers are pressing federal regulators and the Iowa farms at the center of the recall for answers.
Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), who chairs the committee that controls the purse strings of both the Food and…
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Publisher’s Platform
By Bill Marler on
The House and Senate Agriculture and U.S. Food and Drug Administration Oversight Committees should hold joint hearings on the Salmonella egg fiasco.
As I said to the Associate Press yesterday, “The history of ignoring the law makes the sickening of 1,300 and the forced recall of 550 million eggs shockingly…
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FDA: Farms Involved with Recall Need to Clean Up
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The Iowa farms behind a recall of over half a billion eggs did not have adequate food safety standards in place, U.S. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Margaret Hamburg told CNN yesterday.
“There’s no question these farms involved in the recall were not operating with the standards of practice that…
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Egg Recall Grows to 550 Million
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Another Iowa producer Friday recalled a massive amount of eggs–this latest recall is for 170 million eggs sold under several brand names in at least 14 states.
Hillandale Farms of Iowa said the recalled eggs were sold under Hillandale Farms, Sunny Farms and Sunny Meadow brand names. The plant numbers…