This summer’s record-breaking egg recall didn’t come fast enough for more than 1,500 people who were sickened by salmonella.

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The public ire was further raised when reports emerged that both of the factory farms from which the eggs had emerged were infested with manure, rodents and maggots. And to add insult to injury, one of the filthy farmers in question, Jack DeCoster, had already been cited hundreds of times.

So what punishment was meted out by the FDA? DeCoster received a tepid warning letter, threatening the “regulatory action” that you’d think would come from having sickened more than a thousand people by failing to remedy problems previously cited.

The other filthy farm received a letter clearing them to resume selling their eggs.