Recent guidance from the FDA will place an impossible burden on farmers who raise true free-range chickens.
The guidance, released last month for farms that have more than 3,000 egg-laying chickens, purportedly aims to prevent salmonella and other food borne illnesses by isolating chickens from cats, rats, flies, and wild birds—even though no evidence exists showing them to be of significant risk at spreading salmonella. A 2010 article in the Atlantic Monthly stated that all but one outbreak of food borne illness in the US since 1995 originated at industrial factory farms.
http://www.anh-usa.org/is-the-fda-trying-to-destroy-the-pastured-egg-industry/
The guidance, released last month for farms that have more than 3,000 egg-laying chickens, purportedly aims to prevent salmonella and other food borne illnesses by isolating chickens from cats, rats, flies, and wild birds—even though no evidence exists showing them to be of significant risk at spreading salmonella. A 2010 article in the Atlantic Monthly stated that all but one outbreak of food borne illness in the US since 1995 originated at industrial factory farms.
http://www.anh-usa.org/is-the-fda-trying-to-destroy-the-pastured-egg-industry/
