FDA finds evidence of salmonella in chicken feed

Friday, August 27, 2010 - 15:56 in Biology & Nature

Samples in Iowa are a genetic match to the bacterium that sickened many people and led to a nationwide egg recall.Food and Drug Administration officials said Thursday their investigators had homed in on chicken feed as a likely major contributor to the salmonella contamination that triggered a nationwide egg recall and potentially caused nearly 1,500 cases of illness.

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