Congress calls egg company owners to testfiy

WASHINGTON (AP) — A House panel is calling the owners of two Iowa companies involved in a massive egg recall to testify before Congress next month.

A House Energy and Commerce subcommittee will have a hearing on the recall Sept. 14.

They are inviting Austin "Jack" DeCoster, the head of Wright County Egg, and Orland Bethel, the head of Hillandale Farms. The two farms have recalled more than 550 million eggs after they were linked to as many as 1,300 cases of salmonella poisoning.

The committee is doing an investigation into the recall and has written both companies, along with the Food and Drug Administration and the Agriculture Department, demanding answers on the