Federal officials have spent the last few days scouring egg farms believed to be the source of a Salmonella enteritidis outbreak. This Salmonella outbreak has sickened nearly 2,000 victims and forced a recall of over half a billion eggs. News reports by the Des Moines Register have indicated that federal officials began an investigation based upon positive Salmonella test results at egg farms linked... [more]

During the week, we reported that eggs linked to the Wright County Egg and Hillandale Farms voluntary egg recall (due to the possible presence of Salmonella enteritidis) had been found in West Virginia. Now recalled eggs linked to the Salmonella situation have been found in Kentucky. News reports by The Lincoln-Herald Leader indicated that a Wal-Mart in Ashland-Boyd County Kentucky had discovered... [more]

When Theodore Smith and Daniel Salmon first discovered one strain of Salmonella bacteria in the late 1800’s, one wonders if they could have imagined that this microscopic bacteria could wreak such havoc and garner so much media attention. When Smith, a research associate under the direction of Salmon, identified Salmonella cholerae suis, this was only the beginning. Now, over 2,000 strains of these... [more]

Thursday afternoon, news broke that the source of mulit-state Salmonella enteritidis outbreak may have been found. Federal officials have discovered Salmonella bacteria on the farm and in poultry feed samples. Several samples of bacteria found at Wright County Egg were identical to the Salmonella strain associated with the current outbreak. Positive Salmonella samples were found in pullet feed at Wright... [more]

It appears  research teams with the Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration may have uncovered the source of the Salmonella outbreak which has caused nearly 2,000 illnesses and resulted in the recall of over half a billion eggs throughout the United States. Investigators examining farms owned by Wright County Egg and Hillandale Farms have found traces of Salmonella... [more]

Curiosity got the better of me. Knowing that the hens housed at Wright County Egg and Hillandale Farms are still laying eggs, I wondered what was happening to all of those eggs. Both Wright County Egg and Hillandale Farms are at the center of the ongoing CDC and FDA investigation into a nation-wide Salmonella enteritidis outbreak. If Salmonella is on the inside of the egg, as is possible if the ovaries... [more]

For many years, people believed that Salmonella bacteria, specifically Salmonella enteritidis, was found on the outside of an egg. It was thought that the fecal matter on the ground where a chicken laid her egg would come in contact with the egg shell. Then, if the eggs were not properly washed, Salmonella would contaminate the egg yolk and egg white when an egg was cracked. Now, thanks to scientific... [more]

As of March 8th, there have been just over 100 products recalled over concerns of the products being processed with hydrolyzed vegetable protein (HVP) believed to be contaminated with Salmonella. The recall list is bound to grow as more products are discovered to be connected with the contaminated HVP distributed by Basic Food Flavors, Inc. located in Las Vegas. There are only a few companies that... [more]