The owner of Wright County Egg, Austin "Jack" DeCoster, said he was "horrified" to learn than his products might have been the cause of the illnesses. The CEO of Hillandale Farms, Orland Bethel, refused to answer questions, citing the Fifth Amendment.Full story
A lawsuit accusing two Iowa farms at the heart of a recall of 550 million eggs linked to salmonella illnesses of safely negligence has been filed and is seeking class-action status. Full story
Congressional investigators say the Iowa egg farm at the center of a massive salmonella outbreak received hundreds of positive results for salmonella in the two years before its eggs sickened more than 1,500 people. Full story
Wright County Egg owner Austin DeCoster, left, confers with his attorney Jan Kramer, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2010, as he testified before the House Oversight and Investigations subcommittee hearing on "The Outbreak of Salmonella in Eggs".
FILE - This Aug. 25, 2010 file photo shows one of the chicken confinement sites operated by Wright County Egg in Galt, Iowa. The owner of an egg farm at the center of a massive salmonella recall was able to expand his egg empire despite being branded a "habitual violator" of Iowa's environmental law
This Wednesday Aug. 25, 2010 photo shows one of the chicken confinement sites operated by Wright County Egg in Galt, Iowa. Wright Egg Farms and Hillandale Farms have recalled more than a half-billion eggs linked to as many as 1,300 cases of salmonella poisoning. Their hens are still laying millions
