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FILE-- In this Sept. 22, 2010, file photo, egg industry executive Austin “Jack” DeCoster testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington before the House Oversight and Investigations subcommittee hearing on a nationwide outbreak of salmonella. Federal prosecutors on Wednesday, May, 21, 2014, charged DeCoster and his son Peter DeCoster with introducing adulterated food into interstate commerce, a misdemeanor. A charging document says the pair sold shell eggs contaminated with the strain of salmonella responsible for the outbreak, which sickened thousands. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, file)

Salmonella victim praises charges in 2010 outbreak

By RYAN J. FOLEY - Associated Press

FILE-- In this Sept. 22, 2010, file photo, egg industry executive Austin “Jack” DeCoster testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington before the House Oversight and Investigations subcommittee hearing on a nationwide outbreak of salmonella. Federal prosecutors on Wednesday, May, 21, 2014, charged DeCoster and his son Peter DeCoster with introducing adulterated food into interstate commerce, a misdemeanor. A charging document says the pair sold shell eggs contaminated with the strain of salmonella responsible for the outbreak, which sickened thousands. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, file)

US charges egg company, 2 execs in 2010 outbreak

By RYAN J. FOLEY - Associated Press

After outbreak, egg mogul is leaving the industry

By RYAN J. FOLEY - Associated Press

In this June 6, 2010 file photo, Austin "Jack" DeCoster, right, appears in a Lewiston, Maine, court with Timothy O'Brien, a lawyer representing Maine Contract Farming, LLC, on 10 counts of animal cruelty stemming from an undercover investigation in 2009 by Mercy For Animals at the Turner egg farm. (AP Photo/Sun Journal, Amber Waterman, File)

Egg companies to apologize for outbreak

By Mary Clare Jalonick - Associated Press