WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Food and Drug Administration says it will allow an Iowa egg farm linked to a widespread salmonella outbreak to resume selling its shell eggs to consumers.
Wright County Egg recalled 380 million eggs earlier this year after the farm was linked to more than 1,600 salmonella illnesses. A subsequent FDA inspection revealed dead chickens, insects, rodents and towers of manure at the farm. The company has not been allowed to sell shell eggs since then, except to breaker facilities that pasteurize the eggs.
FDA commissioner Margaret Hamburg said Tuesday that the "time has come" for the company to resume shell egg sales from one of its six farms after it implemented corrective measures.
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