Rodents, bugs, uncontained manure found at Wright County Egg and Hillandale Farms

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Monday, Aug 30, 2010 15:26 ET
Rodents, other violations found at egg farms
Investigators find pests, uncontained manure at Iowa site believed to be responsible for salmonella outbreak
By MARY CLARE JALONICK, Associated Press

Food and Drug Administration investigators have found rodents, seeping manure and even maggots at the Iowa egg farms believed to be responsible for as many as 1,500 cases of salmonella poisoning.

FDA officials released their initial observations of the ongoing investigations at Wright County Egg and Hillandale Farms on Monday. The two farms recalled more than half a billion eggs after salmonella illnesses were linked to their products earlier this month.

Reports released by the FDA show numerous violations at both farms, including rodent, bug and wild bird infestation, uncontained manure, holes in walls and other problems that could have caused the outbreak.

Several positive samples of salmonella have been found at both farms.

http://www.salon.com/food/food_news_roundup/index.html?story=/news/feature/2010/08/30/egg_recall_farm

[rfranklin]

1. Drove by the Perdue and Tyson farms in MD this weekend...

The stench was disgusting.

[mtnester]

2. Garbage in..

garbage out.

[MichiganVote]

3. These greedy fuckers are creating eggs we feed to babies! Babies for crying out loud!

[kestrel91316]

4. Bugs and manure ON A FARM????? The horror of it!!!

[Doremus]

6. I wouldn't call them "farms." I would call them "factories."

On the scale we're talking about, the manure piles are over 6 feet high. How many insects are attracted by gargantuan piles of manure like that? How many different places do these insects spread the bacteria they pick up?

Horror? Yes, I think that's a very apt description of it, now that you mention it.

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