That plan would require that producers to test for salmonella enteritidis all around their farms, not just on the hens or eggs.
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The U . S . Department of Agriculture says as many as 45 percent of all egg-laying flocks are contaminated with salmonella enteritidis.
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The rise of salmonella enteritidis in the 1980s was one of the most serious foodborne epidemics in recent U . S . history.
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Clinton's egg plan calls for reducing the estimated 230, 000 cases of Salmonella enteritidis poisoning by half by 2005 and eliminate them entirely by 2010.
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Opponents like to point out that at a rate of five deaths a year, fewer people die from eating Salmonella enteritidis-tainted eggs than from lightning strikes.
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Although no one can say why the rates of Salmonella enteritidis related infections are dropping, Emilio Esteban, CDC assistant director for public health, credits two things.
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In fact, no one is sure how many people get sick from Salmonella enteritidis, in large part because many cases are not severe enough to get counted.
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The scientists then dropped that unique DNA strand _ a " DNA signature " _ into a culture of suspected salmonella enteritidis to see if they would bind.