Ripple effect of egg recall

As predicted, egg recall is spreading in part because companies sell eggs under a different name, giving the illusion that they are local or part of a smaller company...

Wholesalers and distributors routinely repackage those eggs for sale under other names.

Enter Moark. When the company learned some its eggs had come from Hillandale, Moark told its customers to remove the affected ones from shelves and let the FDA know what was going on. "None of the eggs were produced at Moark facilities or operations," Craig Willardson, Moark's CEO, said in a statement.

Moark is just the latest California connection. Some 266 cases of salmonella that may be related to egg contamination have been identified in the state so far, the Los Angeles Times reported.

Turns out that Iowa is the No. 1 producer of eggs by a country mile. Nearly 53 million hens were laying eggs in Iowa — about double the number in Ohio, the egg runner-up — according to 2008 figures from the Iowa Egg Council.