Salmonella Fears Prompt Extension Of Vast Us Egg Recall

[Raistlin]

A US egg company has extended a nationwide food recall to 380 million eggs, after outbreaks of salmonella poisoning in a number of states.

Iowa-based Wright County Egg last week recalled some 228m eggs distributed under more than a dozen brand names.

The firm is part of DeCoster Farms, a family-run agribusiness.

The US Food and Drug Administration said salmonella outbreaks had increased fourfold since May. There are inquiries into the illness in 13 states.

Proper cooking

Eggs from Wright County Egg were linked to illness in three states.

The eggs were distributed around the country and packaged under the names Lucerne, Albertson, Mountain Dairy, Ralph's, Boomsma's, Sunshine, Hillandale, Trafficanda, Farm Fresh, Shoreland, Lund, Dutch Farms and Kemp.

The egg producer said it was cooperating fully with an FDA investigation and was diverting its eggs to a breaker for pasteurization to kill any harmful bacteria.

Salmonella poisoning can be deadly for people with compromised immune systems, but no deaths have so far been reported.

Bacteria can be passed from seemingly healthy chickens, and grows both inside the egg and on the Shell.

Proper cooking can kill the bacteria, but authorities recommend discarding or returning any potentially affected eggs.

[bothwell_buyer]

typical health scare mongering from the land of horse and carts.

Free range eggs are the most at risk of infection.

Barn raised hens/eggs are subject to high-hygiene standards that your own kitchen would fail. Then we consider pigs living in their own slop and faeces... just like free range hens.

in the latter, eggs laid by pigs are very dangerous, as are eggs laid by free range hens running around ground swilling with e-coli and billions of other bacteria.

Why not try vegetables that have been grown in soil fertilised by cow dung etc?? Or maybe tomatoes grown in fertiliser made from food waste stinkingly collected from households.

At least wur haggis are very difficult to feed - often only feeding from the remnants of discarded whisky bottles.

[Jan&tone]

Oh dear, I hope this isn't something else that the cousins can blame on Mr T....

Or are they too busy planning their next invasion now that all their combat troops are out of Iraq.....

[Parts-King]

The sewerage works in Chester used to win many a competition for growing the finest tomato's, guess what they were grown in?

Typical hype and nonesense, cook em properly, and use proper hygiene in the kitchen, no problem

Yes I'm sure Toyota will get the blame for this one too, unintended acceleration to the toilet after eating Toyoeggs, I'm sure the transportation department will have something to say about it :lol:

Kingo

[Raistlin]

That's an oeuf.....