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FDA CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION - FDA Steps Up Inspections Under New Egg Rule

 

SILVER SPRING, Md., Sept. 4 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- During the next 15 months, FDA investigators will team up with state and local partners to check the 600 largest egg production facilities in the United States.

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The inspections are part of a new egg safety rule that went into effect July 9. The rule aims to prevent outbreaks of Salmonella Enteritidis like the one that has sickened nearly 1,500 people

To learn how you can find out if your eggs are among those being recalled, go to http://www.fda.gov/ForConsumers/ConsumerUpdates/ucm224979.htm.

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FDA Consumer Updates may be posted and published elsewhere without permission. Please credit "FDA Consumer Health Information (www.fda.gov/consumer)" as the source. FDA values feedback on its consumer health information. Send questions, comments, or story ideas to: consumerinfo@fda.hhs.gov.

Jason Brodsky

Director

Consumer Health Information

U.S. Food and Drug Administration

301-796-8234



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