Austin “Jack” DeCoster Abandons Egg Production in Ohio It appears that Austin “Jack” DeCoster – the owner of two Iowa egg farms at the center of a national salmonella outbreak that sickened over 2000 last year – is getting out of the egg business, at least in Ohio. According to the Des Moines Iowa Register, [...]

Congressional investigators have just announced that lab results taken from Wright County Egg farm in Iowa show over 400 cases of positive salmonella contamination.  These tests were taken in the two years immediately prior to the massive salmonella outbreak linked to Wright CountyEgg and Hillandale Farms that has sickened 1500 nationwide. In a letter to its owner, Jack DeCoster, leaders of [...]

Egg farm owner Jack DeCoster is in a lot of trouble.  His egg farms – Quality Egg LLC d/b/a Wright County Egg and Hillandale Farms of Iowa – have been linked to the Salmonella Enteritidis outbreak that has sickened over 1500 nationwide. He’s already hired a team of criminal defense lawyers. The FDA – and [...]