Posted on 08/21/2010 5:45:39 AM PDT by driftdiver
A second Iowa egg farm is recalling eggs as part of an investigation into a U.S. salmonella outbreak that is linked to almost 300 illnesses across the country, federal regulators said on Friday.
Hillandale Farms of Iowa Inc is voluntarily recalling shell eggs potentially contaminated with salmonella in an expanding national egg recall that is among the largest in recent years, according to the Food and Drug Administration.
.... The sweeping egg recalls come just weeks after a new FDA rule took effect on July 9 requiring large-scale producers to practice better safety and to test in the poultry house for salmonella bacteria.
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They will find the new regulations go too far and will quietly eliminate them.
It doesn't completely solve the problem even if there is a way to stop the outbreaks at the farms. You still have the issue of antibiotics fed to animals at factory farms. Then you have the ridiculous situation of a product as prone to contamination as are eggs being shipped as far as Alaska, and everywhere in between.
The only way this is going to stop is to go back to smaller farms which use less chemicals, additives, preservatives, and antibiotics. Besides that, if the food isn't close to market there is a myriad of opportunity for contamination or spoilage in transit.
I doubt we have any clue of how bad the situation is with the contaminants in our food supply. I'm actually surprised the feds even tell us anymore when there's an outbreak caused by bad food.
The Feds are encouraging people to eat poisoned seafood from the Gulf to “help the economy.” So, you never know.
What? if these animals in question were on antibiotics then there would be no problem. The issues is most likely rodents.
The trend is to push food production into bigger corporations and offshore. You can’t sell a chicken or its eggs unless the animal is registered with the govt.
“They will find the new regulations go too far and will quietly eliminate them.”
Really? When has the govt voluntarily reduced regulation?
Also flies and roaches.
Yeah this is the first time in history a chicken had salmonella.
Using history as a gauge we know what BO’s agenda is with the food supply. It isn’t gonna end well.
I was making a list of all that's wrong with our food. I try to stick to a "pure foods" regimen. Part of it is knowing and trusting the source of my food, and knowing what its ingredients are.
It's very, very hard to do. For starters, so many "fresh foods" aren't fresh anymore; they're loaded with preservatives. I've distrusted eggs unless they're from a trustworthy farm for quite some time. Same thing with dairy. And I keep meat to a minimum, from the best possible sources. Bread is a nightmare, to find something without all kinds of extra junk in it.
It's getting more complicated all of the time, but it seems to help my immune system.
Poultry producers are now using a bleach rinse to ‘clean’ chickens before they leave the factory.
There are many food coops around the country which make buying natural foods easier. Of course the govt is cracking down on them.
Its ok to import watermelons from South America but not from your neighbor.
Seems a lot like PETA is controlling this. Too coincidental that the targets of these investigations are people who’ve been criticized by the animal rights wackos.
They won’t be happy until we are all eating little green crackers.
Saw a doctor talking about why there are problems on Foxnews. She seemed unsure herself. It makes little sense to me. I suppose that the most logical explanation would be the way the eggs are handled or stored, but eggs have a very long shelf life, and I suspect that this is more a hysteria than anything else.
Never, but they often conveniently ignore them when it benefits them.
My grandfather had an egg route. Grandma & the kids took care of the chickens and gather up eggs all week & every Saturday morning, Grandpa would hitch the horse to his wagon and deliver the eggs to his customers.
I can remember when I was very small (circa 1960) that we had Sophie the egg lady come to the house and bring us eggs every week. Funny, how you can remember things like that. I remember her and my grandmother (the other one) gabbing for what seemed like hours. :-)
Well, eggs are bad for you anyway, so Big Zero wants to protect you.
When I was a kid, we spent summers in a rural area. We used to go watch them ‘candle’ the eggs at the egg farm. (Or whatever it was called). I thot it was so interesting.
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