Massive 2010 Oosphere Recall

One zillion eggs to be returned to dealerships for hardware tweaks/software upgrades.

From WaPo:

Federal regulators' knowledge of egg producer in salmonella outbreak is probed

By Rob Stein
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, August 23, 2010

A key member of Congress plans to send a letter to federal regulators Monday seeking a detailed explanation of what they knew about the activities of an Iowa egg producer at the center of a salmonella outbreak and massive egg recall.

Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) plans to ask the Food and Drug Administration and Agriculture Department about Austin "Jack" DeCoster, who owns Wright County Egg. DeLauro chairs the House Appropriations agriculture subcommittee.

Last week, Wright County Egg recalled 380 million eggs distributed nationwide.
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Somewhere, Jack London is laughing (From "The One Thousand Dozen"):

David Rasmunsen was a hustler, and, like many a greater man, a man of the one idea. Wherefore, when the clarion call of the North rang on his ear, he conceived an adventure in eggs and bent all his energy to its achievement. He figured briefly and to the point, and the adventure became iridescent-hued, splendid. That eggs would sell at Dawson for five dollars a dozen was a safe working premise. Whence it was incontrovertible that one thousand dozen would bring, in the Golden Metropolis, five thousand dollars.

On the other hand, expense was to be considered, and he considered it well, for he was a careful man, keenly practical, with a hard head and a heart that imagination never warmed. At fifteen cents a dozen, the initial cost of his thousand dozen would be one hundred and fifty dollars, a mere bagatelle in face of the enormous profit. And suppose, just suppose, to be wildly extravagant for once, that transportation for himself and eggs should run up eight hundred and fifty more; he would still have four thousand clear cash and clean when the last egg was disposed of and the last dust had rippled into his sack
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