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Rep. Rosa L. DeLauro (D-CT), Chairwoman of the FDA and Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee, sent the following letter to the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Thomas R. Frieden, and the Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, Margaret Hamburg, expressing her concern about the public notification efforts in the recent salmonella egg recall. Congresswoman DeLauro has observed that there may have been a significant delay between the reporting companies, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the official notice to consumers about the dangers of more than half a billion contaminated eggs on the market.

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