Congress Considers Salmonella Law, @FoodAndWater Taking Names

Picture this: A USDA inspector find salmonella in chicken, and the manufacture can still send it to stores. Yes, really. The Department of Agriculture can’t issue a mandatory recall of products contaminated with salmonella–even if those products are making people ill.

Last year, more than 600 people were sickened in a year-long antobiotic-resistant salmonella outbreak affecting Foster Farms chicken. If meat had been tainted by E. coli, the Department could have done something about it. But poultry and salmonella? Not so much.