The FDA sent 20 investigators to Wright County Egg Farm and Hillandale Farms and "said Thursday that it had detected the particular strain of salmonella in two barns at Wright County Egg and in the feed that the company gave to its own chickens. The agency also found that strain in feed that Wright supplied to Hillandale."
Jeff Farrar, associate commissioner for food protection at FDA, "said that the agency had taken 600 samples at the farms for laboratory analysis and that additional results were expected."
Josh Sharfstein, deputy commissioner at FDA said that there were multiple ways the contamination could have occurred because Wright County Egg operates a feed mill, hen-laying facilities, and egg-processing plants.
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Posted: 08/27/2010
