Two New York legislators, State Senator Daniel Squadron and Assemblyman Brian Kavanagh, announced Sunday in front of a Lower East Side supermarket that they are creating a bill asking all farmers in New York to vaccinate their hens for salmonella.  Their announcement comes after the nationwide egg recall that removed half a billion eggs from store shelves due to salmonella bacteria.  There have been approximately 1,200 reported cases of salmonella-related food poisoning from the eggs since May.

Kavanagh stated, “The massive outbreaks of food-borne illness in recent months leave no doubt that our food safety system is failing us, threatening everyone’s well being and sometimes costing people’s lives”.

Squadron and Kavanagh argued that for the 5 billion eggs produced in the state of New York alone, vaccinations would cost less than a penny per dozen.  Every year there is an average of 142,000 cases of salmonella food poisoning from eggs in the United States.

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