New York State Agriculture Commissioner Patrick Hooker today alerted consumers that Hamilton Corner Meat Market Inc., located at 1 Hamilton Place, New York, New York 10031, is recalling all packages of “ground beef” sold from bulk on September 7, 2010, due to the presence of Salmonella.
The recalled “ground beef” is sold in bulk
We are suing Jack DeCoster’s company, Wright County Egg, in multiple lawsuits in Federal Court in Iowa. We represent between 30 and 40 other families whose members may have been infected in the outbreak. We have also been granted access to personally inspect Wright County Egg’s facilities after the Committee on Energy and Commerce hearings
Bart Stupak and Henry Waxman certainly set a tone with their letter to Eggman Jack "Austin" DeCoster on September 14, 2010, "inviting" him to testify at the Committee on Energy and Commerce (subcommitte called "Oversight and Investigations") hearing on Wednesday.
Environmental sample reports between 2008 and 2010 indicate that Wright County Egg received 426
While we all wait to see whether Jack DeCoster exercises his 5th Amendment right against self-incrimination, certain senators on the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations who need to be preparing for the Egg Outbreak hearing may find the CDC’s detailed timeline, released today (to my knowledge) extremely helpful in framing the many questions that
In July 2010, CDC identified a nationwide sustained increase in the number of Salmonella Enteritidis isolates with PFGE pattern JEGX01.0004 uploaded to PulseNet, the national subtyping network made up of state and local public health laboratories and federal food regulatory laboratories that performs molecular surveillance of foodborne infections. This increase began in May 2010 and
The looming death of S. 510–a bill to modernize our decades old food safety system–is either economically or politically driven, likely a combination of both. The bill is a measure that should enjoy bipartisan support, but legitimate questions about the measure’s funding have been raised, most notably by Tom Coburn, MD, republican senator from Oklahoma. Senator
The Food Safety Modernization Act Appears Dead in the Senate, Future Uncertain
Reports from Washington, D.C. indicate that the Food Safety Modernization Act (S. 510) will not come up for a vote in the Senate this session, rendering it effectively dead.
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Recent reports on the Wright County egg outbreak investigation seem to have put the final nail in the coffin on the early suggestion that the source of the contamination was from outside of Wright County’s facility. The Wall Street Journal today reported that:
The [FDA][,] [after early tests showed that Wright County’s chicken feed was positive for salmonella]
August 13, 2010: Wright County Egg initiates a voluntary recall of millions of eggs due to implication in a major national Salmonella enteritidis outbreak that had already caused over one thousand confirmed illnesses. The CDC indicated that these additional illnesses represented an approximate four-fold increase in the number of Salmonella enteritidis illnesses as compared
An astounding report today from the Wall Street Journal reveals that Wright County Egg, responsible for at least 1,500 Salmonella illnesses nationwide and the recall of approximately 380 million eggs, was aware of repeated positive tests for Salmonella at its facility well before the recall was announced. The company’s owner, Jack DeCoster, was sent a letter