http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/08/22/eggs.salmonella/index.html?iref=NS1
The question is whose job is it to make sure that those farms don't fall down on safety, because they didn't do their job, and now the public is suffering for it. The public deserves better than this and the kicker is I know we pay as taxpayers for the position to ensure it does get done.
Perhaps it's time to restructure some of those priorities at the FDA, that kept them from ensuring that this kind of thing, doesn't happen again.
The companies that have recalled more than half a billion eggs following a salmonella outbreak fell short of safety standards at their farms, FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg said Sunday.
"There's no question these farms involved in the recall were not operating with the standards of practice we consider responsible," Hamburg told CNN.
She said "about 1,000" people have been sickened by a salmonella outbreak that federal regulators have traced back to two Iowa egg producers
