The Salmonella outbreak linked to recalled Gravel Ridge Farms eggs has grown to include 38 people sick in 7 states, according to the CDC. Ten people have been hospitalized. That’s an increase of 24 more ill persons added to the outbreak total since the last update on September 10, 2018. The case count by state … Read more
The Des Moines Register has discovered that Iowa suspended its egg facility inspections last year in the wake of the bird flu. Public health officials feared that inspectors could spread the virus as they traveled between egg facilities. The pathogenic outbreak that killed millions of birds nationwide started in December 2014. The height of the epidemic occurred in early spring 2015. … Read more
The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Iowa is looking for anyone who was sickened by Salmonella in 2010 by eggs produced by Quality Egg, LLC, also known as Wright County Egg of Galt, Iowa. Between early 2010 and August of that same year, about 2,000 people were sickened with Salmonella bacteria that was linked to eggs … Read more
Austin “Jack” DeCoster and his son Peter pleaded guilty this morning to charges stemming from a 2010 Salmonella outbreak linked to eggs their company produced and sold. Sentences for the DeCosters, who pleaded guilty to introducing adulterated food into interstate commerce, have not yet been decided but could include up to one year in jail, … Read more