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And yet someone from FDA inspected this and stamped it good allowed them to sell eggs from here this is the part that worries me the gov folks approved it.
Prior to this outbreak NO ONE HAD TESTED EITHER OF THESE TWO PLANTS, not the FDA or the USDA. Sure, there were citations and findings about illegal work conditions, but no one from either agency had actually tested the feed, the birds, or the eggs. The plants were not members of the NPIP which also would have found the salmonella.
Please don't spread misinformation - no one inspected and then stamped these plants as 'good'. They slipped under the radar because the rules did not call for routine inspections.
Part of the problem was that the USDA was solely responsible for chickens and the chicken houses, while the FDA was solely in charge of the eggs when they come out and the feed that comes in. New rules have changed that, and we are seeing the results of that partnership in this inspection report.
Clearly the observations here reflect significant deviations from whats expected, said Michael R. Taylor, deputy commissioner for food for the F.D.A.
Mr. Taylor said that in response to the outbreak and recall, F.D.A. inspectors would visit all of the 600 major egg-producing facilities in the country over the next 15 months. Those farms, with 50,000 or more hens each, represent about 80 percent of nationwide egg production.
With implementation of the
new egg safety laws, the FDA says as many as 79,000 illnesses and 30 deaths related to contaminated egg consumption may be avoided. The new laws went into effect on July 9, 2010. Smaller egg producers (less than 50,000 but at least 3,000 laying hens) have an additional two years to comply with the new rules.
