date:Aug 14, 2013
Safety Inspection Service were not communicating with each other or the departments general counsel, a 2012 audit found.
And the Agriculture Department was not communicating well with the independent FDA, which had been given lead authority for egg safety.
Shortly after the August 2010 recall, an Ohio-based producer recalled more than 280,000 eggs of which 90 percent contained the official USDA grade mark for quality. Likewise, so did most of the half a billion eggs recalled in August 2010.