Egg Recall

Egg recall related to salmonella outbreak expanded.
ABC World News (8/18, lead story, 2:45, Stephanopoulos) reported, "Federal health officials have put on a nationwide alert and issued one of the most sweeping food recalls in a generation. Two hundred twenty-eight million eggs from one of the country's biggest producers, after tainted eggs caused a dangerous outbreak of salmonella. It's made hundreds of people sick in at least three states and it is spreading." ABC (Wright) added, "Ironically, the FDA just issued strict new guidelines for farmers, designed to prevent salmonella outbreaks. Those guidelines took effect just last month clearly not in time to prevent this outbreak. And food safety officials stress they're still in their early stages of the investigation," and "fully expect this outbreak to grow."
NBC Nightly News (8/18, story 3, 2:35, Williams) added, "Federal investigators at these massive henhouses in Galt, Iowa believe salmonella has somehow made its way inside." The recalls are occurring "after several hundred people became sick in California, Colorado, and Minnesota. And it looks as if the hens themselves have been infected."
The New York Times (8/19, B1, Neuman) reports on the front page of its Business Day section that the "outbreak, which federal officials said was the largest of its type related to eggs in years, began in May, just weeks before new government safety rules went into effect that were intended to greatly reduce the risk of salmonella in eggs." The Times says that the "company behind the recall, Wright County Egg, of Galt, Iowa, is owned by Jack DeCoster, who has had run-ins with regulators over poor or unsafe working conditions, environmental violations, the harassment of workers, and the hiring of illegal immigrants."
USA Today (8/19, Weise) reports that the recall has "renewed questions about whether it's feasible to keep the microbe -- the most common bacterial source of food-borne illness in the nation -- out of the henhouse." Meanwhile, "CDC epidemiologist Christopher Braden said Wednesday that there may be thousands of illnesses, though no reported deaths." Braden added, "We're speculating they could have had a highly infected flock or the product could have been mishandled, but we don't really know."