I told a state-sponsored jazz radio station yesterday (NPR) and a few dozen other media outlets yesterday that as someone who shops a lot for groceries, I’d be really interested in eggs that were verified through some kind of testing to be salmonella-free. Or reduced levels. Anything but the marketing crap that currently dominates the nation’s grocery shelves.

DES MOINES, Iowa -- Low-cost vaccines that may have helped prevent the kind of salmonella outbreak that has led to the recall of more than a half-billion eggs haven't been given to half of the nation's egg-laying hens.

WASHINGTON -- The outbreak of salmonella in eggs is energizing efforts to pass a long-stalled food-safety bill that could prevent or mitigate such problems, according to federal officials, congressional supporters and independent experts.

If anyone stands to benefit from the most sweeping egg recall in America’s history, it is the chickens.

Le U.S. Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) est en train d’enquêter sur une éclosion à Salmonella Enteriditis liée aux œufs en coquilles. L’éclosion, qui a débuté en mai et qui est toujours en cours, a entraîné environ plusieurs centaines de malades.

El Patron Mexican restaurant has closed after failing two consecutive health inspections. The restaurant, which opened in March 2009 in the Imperial Hotel, at 100 St. Joseph St., faced an administrative hearing to determine whether its license would be suspended or revoked, said Clark Hepper, administrator for the state’s Office of Health Protection.

SALMONELLA enteritidis is a food-borne illness so common that the Food and Drug Administration moved last year to enact rules first proposed during the Bill Clinton administration. The new monitoring and safety requirements didn't go into effect until last month.

The Food and Drug Administration will conduct hundreds of inspections of egg producers to ensure they adhere to newly implemented safety rules in the wake of the massive egg recall linked to a salmonella outbreak, officials said Monday.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- As more than 500 million Iowa-produced eggs are being recalled nationally, California-produced eggs have been free of Salmonella enteritidis for more than ten years and experts point to the state's California Egg Quality Assurance Program (CEQAP) as the primary reason.