The farms implicated in the nationwide egg recall are indeed contaminated with salmonella, FDA investigators find.

Fortunately, the FDA earlier this month pressured Wright County Egg and Hillandale Farms — two Iowa facilities that are part of the same company — into voluntarily recalling over a half billion eggs. It’s by far the largest U.S. egg recall on record.

The links below can provide you with the latest on the egg recall and the investigation of the outbreak.

Egg Recall: Frequently Asked Questions

Egg Safety Center List of Recalled Eggs

Now, for the first time, the FDA says its investigators have found salmonella in four samples from the suspect facilities:

* a sample from chicken manure
* a manure sample found on a barn walkway
* a sample from chicken feed made at a pullet-raising facility that supplies hens to the two egg farms
* a sample from a feed ingredient

FDA investigators are still testing hundreds of other samples. In a few days, they will file a full report on the extent of salmonella contamination at the facilities, […]