INDIANAPOLIS — While federal food safety officials are scrambling to deal with the recall of a half-billion eggs from two Iowa farms, a small state agency housed in a poultry building on a college campus has been quietly tending to the business of egg safety in Indiana.
During the last year, the three field staff inspectors who work for the Indiana State Egg Board have inspected more than 5,000 egg farms and nearly 1 million eggs, rejecting about one-third of those eggs for failing to meet state and federal standards.
Their mission is to register and regulate every wholesaler and retailer in Indiana that sells or serves eggs.
Late last year, ISEB executive administrator Mark Straw moved to increase fees charged to egg producers and to clarify rules that could give his inspectors more authority.
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