The men, in their traditional beards, home-sewn black pants and shirts buttoned up to the neck, are so 19th century. The eggs are washed white, regimented and rolled across a light table, where Kleinsasser scrutinizes each one for cracks or signs of fertilization before feeding them into the clacking, spring-loaded fingers of a mechanical egg loader, which sorts them by weight and then drops them into cartons.
IOWA CITY - A ruthless businessman who built one of the nation's largest egg production operations from scratch even as he racked up environmental and labor violations is getting out of the business in disgrace after one scandal was too much to overcome: a nationwide salmonella outbreak caused by his products. Austin "Jack" DeCoster and his son, Peter, said in a statement they have given up control of egg operations in Iowa, Maine and Ohio, including the farms that produced salmonella-tainted eggs that sickened an estimated 1,900 people and led to a recall of 550 million eggs. Federal inspectors later discovered filthy conditions at the farms, including dead rodents and towers of manure.
PALMYRA - More than 150 people lined up Friday afternoon at Millennium Convention Center for a salad, quiche and cheesecake luncheon, getting a firsthand taste of Maine's brown egg industry. Maine's history is tied to the farm and the sea," Maine first lady Karen Baldacci told the diners. "Almost all of the farms in Maine are family farms.
To: FOOD EDITORS Contact: Stevan Allen of Pacific Egg & Poultry Association, +1- 916-448-1336, cell, +1-916-718-2999
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Leaders of the egg industry voted Tuesday to require that egg producers who use the "Animal Care Certified" logo on their cartons also include a Web site that gives information about what some claim is the inhumane treatment of chickens. The vote by the board of directors of the United Egg Producers was in response to a ruling issued a day earlier by the Better Business Bureau that called the logo misleading. The bureau's National Advertising Review Board said the egg industry should eliminate the logo or provide better information to consumers.
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In the face of a nationwide scare involving contaminated eggs, the Food and Drug Administration commissioner said Monday the agency needs more resources to hunt down the sources of contaminated food and hold commercial farmers and others accountable. We need additional resources, we need additional authority," said FDA Commissioner Dr. Margaret Hamburg. "We need to be able to more routinely review records.
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) -- Sales of eggs have rebounded after a sharp drop in the weeks after the August recall of 550 million eggs potentially contaminated with salmonella. The upswing is a relief to egg producers, but industry leaders said they thought sales would return to normal as the recall by two Iowa farms faded from memory. The industry also spent about $1 million on an ad campaign emphasizing its commitment to food safety. "I think that ad campaign and what we did was really effective," said Jacques Klempf, president of the Jacksonville, Fla.-based Dixie Egg Co., one of the country's largest egg producers. "We hit all the major markets and tried our best to put" out "some science and some reason.
The threat of an avian flu pandemic has Maine's poultry industry and state workers increasing efforts to keep the disease from spreading here. But Maine's top public health official, Dr. Dora Anne Mills of the Bureau of Health, said each household also should create its own safeguards.
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