Eggs

Thirty-five people in nine states have fallen ill with salmonella poisoning caused by contaminated eggs, prompting authorities to recall more than 207 million eggs.

A North Carolina farm is recalling more than 200 million eggs over concerns that the eggs have been contaminated with salmonella.

AFP — A scandal involving eggs contaminated with insecticide spread to 15 EU countries, Switzerland and as far away as Hong Kong on Friday as the European Commission called for a special meeting on the growing crisis. Ministers and food

BRUSSELS (AFP) – The EU will call an emergency meeting of ministers over insecticide-tainted eggs, European Health Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis said Friday, appealing for an end to “blaming and shaming” over the scandal.

BRUSSELS (AP) — Dutch authorities knew as far back as November that some eggs in the country were contaminated with an insecticide and they failed to notify their European partners at the time, Belgium’s agriculture minister said Wednesday. The inspector

BRUSSELS (AP) – Belgian food safety authorities began investigating possible pesticide contamination in eggs in early June, several weeks before the public was made aware of a food safety scare now affecting several European countries. Supermarkets have pulled millions of

Members of the USDA-sponsored American Egg Board should have known before they threatened a vegan mayonnaise competitor that that the not-so-funny joke in corporate board rooms these days is that the new nick-name for e-mail is “evidence mail.”

California chickens are getting an extreme coop makeover in 2015 under a proposition passed by the state’s voters back in 2008, and it’s costing farmers and consumers in renovations and rising egg prices.

Farmers in California are worried that President Obama’s recent executive action on immigration will exacerbate a labor shortage problem in the Golden State’s agriculture industry.