Despite sickening 416 people with Salmonella over several months, Foster Farms reopened Saturday morning after a two-day closure because of roach infestation.

“Cockroaches are never good; but neither are 416 sick people.”

If only consumers had some way of choosing at retail, based on solid microbial sampling and food safety records, which chicken they would want to buy.

Sorry, no one will market food safety at retail; so no choice.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service cleared the way for the plant in Livingston to reopen after the poultry producer submitted a mitigation plan.

According to Lynne Terry of The Oregonian, neither USDA nor Foster Farms offered any details about what the company had done to fix the cockroach infestation.