For the truthful record and as essential background briefing, it should be noted that contrary to Michael Stedman’s statement that Salmonella was never found on Mr Pitt’s farm, I refer interested readers to the Communicable Disease Intelligence article of March 2007 entitled: Large outbreaks of Salmonella typhimurium phage type 135 infections associated with the consumption of products containing raw egg in Tasmania. It was written by public health scientists and a DPIW veterinarian.

It reports that the same Salmonella strain linked to human illness from eating egg products was also recovered from the surface of eggs, from poultry faeces, spilled chicken feed and a egg conveyor belt at the egg farm that is the basis of Michael’s Sunday Tasmanian article today.