In 1988, Deputy Health Minister Edwina Currie said that most of the egg production in Britain was infected with salmonella, a bacterium that can cause food poisoning. She losther job and brought Britain’s egg and poultry industry to the brink of collapse. It was later revealed that aAn outbreak of Salmonella dublin infection occurred in England and Wales in October to December 1989. Forty-two people were affected, mainly adults, and most lived in south-east England. Microbiological and epidemiological investigations implicated an imported Irish soft unpasteurized cows’ milk cheese as the vehicle of infection.