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FDA says chicken feed linked to egg recall
By Rita Jane Gabbett on 8/27/2010
Food and Drug Administration investigators have found positive samples of salmonella in chicken feed used at the two farms implicated in the salmonella outbreak that triggered a recall of over 550 million eggs, FDA officials told journalists on Thursday.
The finding, at Iowa-based Wright County Egg and Hillandale Farms, suggests feed or feed ingredients might be a source of the salmonella outbreak, FDA and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials said at a press conference, according to media reports.
"This finding of matching the DNA footprint in feed indicates that Wright County Farms and Hillandale Farms are likely sources of the contaminated eggs and that feed and feed ingredients perhaps were the sources but maybe not the only sources," Sherri McGarry, emergency coordinator for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, was quoted as saying.
"We do not know at this point how, when or where the feed may have been contaminated,” Dr. Jeff Farrar, associate commissioner for food protection at the FDA's Office of Foods, was quoted as saying.
The officials warned that while they have found salmonella in the feed on the farms, they are not concluding a strict cause-and-effect relationship, as there are many potential routes of contamination. For example, the feed undergoes a heat treatment that kills salmonella, but it may have been contaminated at the farms after it was processed.
The officials said walkways and manure at Wright County Egg also tested positive for salmonella, as did ingredients used in the feed.
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