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U.S. egg recall

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Ongoing salmonella
outbreak prompts
egg recall

Updated 1d 15h ago

By Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY

A national outbreak of salmonella in eggs has
sickened hundreds of people since May and appears t
o be ongoing, experts at the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention say. The outbreak has been
tracked to in-shell eggs from Wright County Egg in
Galt, Iowa, which has launched a recall.

The Associated Press estimates the total number of
eggs recalled at 228 million.

Eggs from the company were sold under multiple
brand names: Lucerne, Albertson, Mountain Dairy,
Ralph's, Boomsma's, Sunshine, Hillandale,
Trafficanda, Farm Fresh, Shoreland, Lund, Dutch
Farms and Kemps. They were distributed
nationwide. The recall was launched Aug. 13.

CDC: Poultry is No. 1 food poisoning culprit

The recall covers eggs in their shells packed
between May 16 and Aug. 13. They come in cartons
ranging from six to 18 eggs and are marked with
plant numbers P-1026, P-1413 and P-1946. The
eggs should be returned for a refund and not
consumed.

The type of salmonella causing the outbreak,
salmonella enteritidis, is the most common form.
The normal level of laboratory-confirmed cases
nationally for this specific type is about 50 cases
per week. When that jumped to 200 cases a week in
June, public health workers realized they had a
problem, says Casey Barton Behravesh, a veterinary
epidemiologist with the CDC. Many states had
reported increases since May.

Completely cooking eggs reduces the amount of
salmonella bacteria in the eggs. Each case of
laboratory-confirmed salmonella usually represents
30 cases that were not reported, public health
research shows. So the number of people sickened
in this outbreak could be in the thousands.

"This certainly has the potential to be a very large
outbreak both given the apparent number of
reported cases so far and also the fact that many of
these eggs may still be in consumer refrigerators,"
says Caroline Smith DeWaal, food safety director of
the Center for Science in the Public Interest.

CDC is not reporting deaths or hospitalizations in
the outbreak because it's difficult to determine if
they are related to eggs from Wright County Egg or
are part of the expected "background" level of cases
from other sources, Behravesh says.
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As always, thanks for the info Josie!

I'm having L check our eggs now... ugh.
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Well I don't see my sister in law's name in that list of recalls, so I guess we're okay! :lol:
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Does anyone else see the aggravating Irony of this?????????




WASHINGTON (AFP) – Contaminated chicken feed is likely to blame for a salmonella outbreak at two major US egg producers that has already sickened some 1,700 people, federal health officials said Thursday.

"We don't know if the feeding ingredients came to the facility contaminated or if the feed got contaminated at the facility," said Jeff Farrar, the associate commissioner for food protection at the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

Farrar told reporters the chicken feed in question had only gone to two Iowa farms -- Wright County Egg and Hillandale Farms -- and not been distributed elsewhere in the country.

The two farms recalled more than half a billion eggs last week -- the industry's biggest such recall in US history -- after learning salmonella from their products sickened consumers. Several dozen egg brands in 22 US states were affected by the move.

"We are looking at all possibilities here of how contamination could have gone into the feed or on to the farm," Farrar said.

"This contamination can come in through numerous routes -- including rodents, shared equipment, workers -- so we are looking into all those possibilities in our investigation."

Health experts say salmonella is spread most often by the consumption of food contaminated by animal fecal matter.

The microbe usually flourishes within the intestinal tracts of fowl and mammals.

Some 1,700 people have fallen ill in the United States from salmonella found in fresh eggs between May 1 and August 25, according to Christopher Braden, acting director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's foodborne diseases division.

An estimated 400,000 people are infected with food-borne salmonella each year in the United States, according to the CDC. It can be deadly to vulnerable populations such as the young, elderly, or those with compromised immune systems.

Recent years have seen various massive food recalls in the United States -- from salmonella-tainted peanut butter to pistachios to frozen spinach and milk -- amid criticism that America's food regulation regime is under-staffed.
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:shock: :roll: :?
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