Federal agents visited Hillandale Farms and Wright County Egg, which have recalled more than half a billion eggs in the wake of the salmonella outbreak, a U.S. Food and Drug Administration spokeswoman said Wednesday.
The congresswoman who leads the House subcommittee that oversees the Food and Drug Administration said Friday that she is questioning whether there was a significant delay in public notification about a massive egg recall.
Federal investigators have found salmonella bacteria in chicken feed and in barn and walkway areas at Iowa farms at the center of the nationwide outbreak, officials said.
Feed given to hens -- used at both Wright County Egg and Hillandale Farms -- is the likely source of contamination that led to a nationwide salmonella outbreak, federal officials said Thursday.
Fresh eggs being produced by farms at the heart of a massive recall are making their way to consumers via facilities that pasteurize the eggs, process them and rid them of any possible salmonella.
CNN's Elizabeth Cohen explains how you can reduce your chances of getting salmonella poisoning.
As public health officials across the country look into the salmonella outbreak that began in the spring, the state of California believes it has identified its earliest cases -- and says its investigation helped tip off the rest of the country to the source of the problem.
An investigation is underway into the nationwide egg recall. CNN's Sandra Endo reports.
Food safety regulators don't expect any more recalls after last week's withdrawal of about 550 million eggs from the U.S. market, but inspections are still going on following a salmonella outbreak traced to two Iowa farms, federal officials said Monday.
CNN's Casey Wian takes a closer look at one of the Iowa companies targeted by the tainted egg recall.
The House Energy and Commerce Committee requested documents and information Monday from Wright County Egg and Hillandale Farms of Iowa related to the recent salmonella outbreak and egg recalls, according to a news release from the office of the committee's chairman, Rep. Henry Waxman, D-California.
The company at the center its expanding its voluntary recall of eggs due to salmonella fears. KCTV reports.
The number of eggs recalled in a nationwide salmonella scare has grown to more than half a billion.
Another Iowa egg producer, Hillandale Farms of Iowa, is voluntarily recalling shell eggs distributed to stores and companies that service, or are located in, fourteen states, the Egg Safety Center website said Friday.
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