Sunday, August 22, 2010

Scrambled eggs...

Concerns over our food happen each time there is a major recall, the problem with a food product like eggs being recalled is it's hard to know if an eating establishment has used eggs from the company under recall in it's food preparation process. At home, it's easy, just make sure to only use cooked eggs. In the most recent situation, the company in question has a record of previous problems -- as per the Washington Post:

The Iowa egg producer that federal officials say is at the center of a salmonella outbreak and recalls of more than a half-billion eggs has repeatedly paid fines and settled complaints over health and safety violations and allegations ranging from maintaining a "sexually hostile work environment" to abusing the hens that lay the eggs.

In the past 20 years, according to the public record, the DeCoster family operation, one of the 10 largest egg producers in the country, has withstood a string of reprimands, penalties and complaints about its performance in several states.

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