The state of Michigan joins newly by receiving recalled eggs and hence the total number of states that recalled tainted eggs stood at 23. So far the states received about half a billion eggs.
The federal government said that it investigates the egg recall and told about 1,300 Americans have been sickened. Bill Marker, who represents 35 families whose members contracted salmonella, told CNN that the FDA did not have enough resources to inspect in this plant and in many times we have to come in, including media and lawyers to bring the problem in to light and to try to get it corrected.
Hamburg told that the new regulations effected by FDA could have avoided such vast recall of eggs if it was adopted earlier than July since FDA admits that the outbreak was traced even in May.
It is the fact that the FDA inspectors didn’t inspect farms until the recent outbreak and Jeff Farrar, the associate commissioner for food safety at the Food and Drug Administration said the inspectors will have routine inspections of egg farms under the new rule throughout the United States.
However, there is no expectation for further recalls of eggs and so far about 550 million eggs have been recalled from the U.S. market.
John Boyd Jr., a poultry farmer told that inspections should have been done in regular basis before this outbreak and added the new bill will bring more enforcement.
The bipartisan bill enables FDA with new powers and resources to crack down the food supplies that have been contaminated. The new power will give them to order for a recall of contaminated food supplies instead of relying on voluntary recalls. The expected new bill will also have provision for the agency to shut down a plant which is suspected for supplying foods which will cause serious health problems.