AG DEPARTMENT STOPS LOOKING FOR TAINTED EGGS

(09/04/2010)
West Virginia Agriculture Commissioner Gus Douglass says his agency has stopped looking for eggs included in a multistate recall.

Douglass says state agriculture inspectors found potentially tainted eggs at 18 locations in West Virginia.

While most WV Foodland stores did not have tainted eggs, those that had them, removed them quickly from the shelves.

More than 550 million eggs from two Iowa farms were recalled in August after being linked to as many as 1,300 cases of salmonella poisoning.

Meanwhile, some WV retailers are looking at development a program with state farmers to produce eggs locally.