Chicken Feed Tied to Egg Outbreak
FDA investigators in the multi-state Salmonella egg outbreak are close to completing a report on their findings after looking for the outbreak strain of Salmonella Enteritidis at Wright County Egg and Hillandale Farms.
.jpg)
In a preliminary announcement today, FDA officials said they found the outbreak strain of Salmonella in chicken feed used by both Iowa egg producers. The breakthrough is a smoking gun for egg lawsuits, creating a DNA fingerprint trace from ill consumers to the egg producers.
Dr Jeff Farrar, associate commissioner of food protection in the FDA's Office of Foods, was quoted by the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy as saying: "We don't know how, when, or where the feed may have become contaminated. It raises additional questions at this point.''
FDA investigators have been performing environmental assessments of farm conditions and practices including pest and rodent controls, biosecurity plans and controls; environmental monitoring; sanitary controls; and feed and laying hen sources. The investigators are also looking at commonalities between Wright County Egg and Hillandale Farms.
The agency says the Salmonella egg outbreak is the largest Salmonella Enteritidis outbreak ever recorded by the federal surveillance system established in the 1970s. The total egg recall has involved more than 500 million eggs distributed directly to 22 states and secondarily to other states.
Law firm PritzkerOlsen, P.A. is preparing an egg lawsuit for victims of this outbreak and is continuing to accept cases at 1-888-377-8900 (Toll Free). To contact the firm online, complete the form on the side of this Web page.
PritzkerOlsen is a leading food safety law firm involved in virtually every foodborne illness outbreak in the United States. The firm has collected millions of dollars on behalf of people injured or killed as a result of adulterated food, including eggs contaminated with Salmonella.
