19 October 2010
Today the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) increased its estimate of cases involved in the outbreak to 1,813, compared with 1,608 in the last update on Sep 20.
The Food and Drug Administration has given Hillandale Farms, one of two Midwest egg producers at the center of this summer's massive egg recall, the go-ahead to sell shell eggs again from three of its nine houses. But the other, Wright County Egg, instead got a scathing warning letter threatening that if corrective action is not taken, the FDA could seize company assets. Wright County Egg is still allowed to sell eggs, but they must go to a "breaker" facility where the eggs are removed from their shells and heated to kill salmonella for use in prepared foods.