The link between Hillandale and Wright County Egg was made clearer this morning by Mary Clare Jalonick of the Associated Press who reported that both businesses "share suppliers of chickens and feed as well as ties to an Iowa business routinely cited for violating state and federal law."
The company Quality Egg supplies young chickens
Against a backdrop of a recall of 380 million eggs and thousands of Salmonella illnesses nationwide, numerous commentators have been pointing out the long history of violations amassed by Wright County Egg owner Jack DeCoster.
Yesterday ABC news reported on DeCoster’s past. There have been labor problems:
In the summer of 1996 when DeCoster
They just keep coming. Today is the announcement by Oregon health officials of 23 Salmonella infections linked to dairy products from the Umpqua Dairy in Oregon. Two of those ill have been hospitalized, according to this report. The illnesses were traced to product from the company’s.jpg)
production plant in Roseburg Oregon.
Officials said the illnesses occurred in
The list keeps expanding of manufacturers who packaged and sold Wright County eggs, currently the subject of a massive recall related to an ongoing nationwide Salmonella outbreak. Thankfully, we have people like Phyllis Entis over at eFoodAlert.com to help keep up on the ever-expanding list of implicated products being recalled in this debacle. Phyllis
The Salmonella outbreaks just keep coming. Two different strains of the bacteria have been associated with over 150 illnesses tied to Taco Bell, and hundreds, if not thousands, more are linked to recently recalled eggs. Now, it appears that pickles in Chicago are the source of a new outbreak.
Cook County public health officials
The FDA announced today that Goya Foods, Inc. of Secaucus, NJ, is recalling its 14 ounce 
packages of Frozen Mamey Pulp, due to a potential health risk from Salmonella. The FDA states that the recalled Goya brand Mamey Pulp was distributed in the states of AK, AZ, CA, CO, HI, NM, NV, OR, TX, UT
The CDC released a report today linking 79 Salmonella infections to dry pet food. According to the New York Times, this is the first time human infections have been linked to dry dog or cat food:
The infections occurred from January 2006 through October 2008 in 21 states. More than 23,000 tons of pet food were
A 2007 USDA rule requiring that US producers must pasteurize or chemically treat all almonds may soon no longer be in force. Almond growers could be allowed to sell unpasteurized raw almonds, as the result of a ruling Tuesday by the U.S. District Court of Appeals in Washington, 
D.C, according to a news report.
The 2007 rule
CDC announced this afternoon that it is investigating two multistate outbreaks of Salmonella infections, each involving a different Salmonella serotype: Hartford and Baildon. Both of these Salmonella serotypes are rare, and ill persons in both outbreaks have a similar age and geographic distribution.
An analysis indicates that eating at a Mexican-style fast food restaurant
An excellent piece authored by Dennis G. Maki, MD. discussing food safety and seeking lessons learned in recent national Salmonella outbreaks was recently brought to my attention. Dr. Maki’s piece from the March 2009 New England Journal of Medicine looked back over two outbreaks in particular, the 2008 Salmonella Saintpaul outbreak linked to peppers, and