Egg Recall Executives to Testify in Congress
The top executives of the egg recall have been invited to testify before Congress at a hearing entitled "The Outbreak of Salmonella in Eggs'' on Tuesday, September 21.
The invited witnesses before Chairman Henry Waxman's committee are Austin "Jack" DeCoster, owner of Wright County Egg; Orland Bethel, president of Hillandale Farms of Iowa and Michael R. Taylor, deputy commissioner for foods at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration..gif)
The Des Moines Register reported that DeCoster, whose company is responsible for most of the 550 million eggs recalled in August, will indeed testimony. That wasn't the case in 2009 when Stewart Parnell, then head of Peanut Corp. of America, pleaded the Fifth Amendment and refused to testify before the same committee about the peanut product Salmonella Typhimurium outbreak that killed nine people and sickened more than 700.
Chairman Waxman, of California, has scheduled next week's hearing at 11 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building to discuss a broad, multi-state outbreak of Salmonella Enteritidis that has sickened more than 1,500 people. Representative Waxman also has requested all documents related to the outbreak from FDA and USDA. The hearing originally was set for Sept. 14, but was postponed.
The Salmonella egg outbreak began in May, peaked in July and has trickled into September. Food safety law firm PritzkerOlsen, P.A., continues to receive numerous contacts from victims of this outbreak and attorney Fred Pritzker is still accepting new cases as the firm's lead egg lawsuit attorney.
Pritzker Olsen law firm has filed an egg lawsuit on behalf of victims of this outbreak and has produced a video presentation of the egg lawsuit. To contact a To contact a Salmonella egg recall lawyer at the firm, call 1-888-377-8900 (TOLL FREE) or complete the contact form on the side of this Web page. A lawyer will respond promptly and provide a free consultation of your case.
Pritzker Olsen is a leading national practitioner of foodborne illness litigation and has collected millions for victims of food poisoning across the country. We are involved in practically all major outbreaks of Salmonella, E. coli and other pathogens in food and we are actively involved in efforts to create a safer food supply for the United States.
