Investigators: Egg farm knew

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Iowa egg farm at the center of a massive salmonella outbreak received hundreds of positive results for salmonella in the two years before its eggs sickened more than 1,500 people, congressional investigators said Tuesday.

In a letter to the company's owner, the House Energy and Commerce Committee said its investigators had obtained records showing Wright County Egg received 426 positive results for salmonella between 2008 and 2010. The company recalled 380 million eggs in August after its products were linked to hundreds of illnesses.

The committee said the positive results found over the last two years included 73 samples that were potentially positive for Salmonella Enteritidis, the strain responsible for the recent outbreak.

The owner of Wright County Egg, Austin "Jack" DeCoster, is scheduled to testify before the panel next week. A company spokeswoman did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Read more: http://www.omaha.com/article/20100914/NEWS01/709149857/1009#investigators-egg-farm-knew

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

1. This guy need to spend some time in jail and fed nothing but eggs.

[Cronus Protagonist]

2. But but but won't the industry police itsell???

So much for all that Ayn Randian BULLSHIT.

[jgraz]

3. But... if we don't let them kill people eggs might cost another 3 cents a dozen!!!

Cuz you know we can't possibly reduce profits or compensation to the owners or executives.

[Mopar151]

4. Jack De Coster = Worse than Manson

Given His record in Iowa, and previously in Maine, He should be a destitute ex-convict. Instead, he is a symbol for the "License to Steal" program.....

[DRoseDARs]

5. Charge them with 1500+ counts of attempted murder. They'll be a little more talkative then... n/t

[Stumbler]

6. Why am I not surprised?

You mean to tell me that a corporate-food-producer would knowingly allow harmful products into the marketplace in an endless attempt to produce more money regardless of the consequences? Even in loss of human life?

A corporation, who by definition is a psychopathic entity focused on a single, selfish goal with absolutely no concern for the consequence of others? They might be to blame for this?!? Say it ain't so!

(Now, how can we blame liberals and labor unions for this fiasco?)
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