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Thread #163306   Message #3917707
Posted By: keberoxu
16-Apr-18 - 04:19 PM
Thread Name: BS: man's inhumanity to eggs
Subject: RE: BS: man's inhumanity to eggs
So far I must be looking in the wrong places, to find further info
about the following news item.
This report comes from the Food & Drug Administration itself,
and the news media underscore the report with articles of their own.

The United States has had an outbreak of one of the more rare forms of salmonella and it has been linked to one farm's output of, as the report puts it, "shell eggs."
The above link, if you look at the page closely, shows a little map of the continental US. On that map the salmonella cases are documented by state.
What the map doesn't tell you -- it's in the text of the document -- is that the corporation that owns the farm is in one state, while the operated farm facility is many states away, I think the distance can be measured in thousands of miles;
if I read right, the physical location of the shell eggs, which were subjected to laboratory FDA tests and found positive for salmonella, was a North Carolina operation. But the corporation owning the premises has its headquarters in Indiana.

The other thing I could not find, and I looked for it,
was anything about conditions at the farm with the, how shall I phrase this, guilty eggs.
Inspections such as the FDA does, must consider conditions at the spot , surely -- it gives one to think, that that detail cannot be found in the reports.