Salmonella Enteritidis-tainted Eggs top 550,000,000
The New York Times William Neuman just reported that:
Hillandale Farms of Iowa, issued a recall Friday of 170 million eggs that it sent to 14 states. The company said “laboratory-confirmed illnesses” had been associated with the eggs, and federal officials said the illnesses were part of a large outbreak of salmonella that has sickened hundreds of people across the country since May.
Hillandale Farms of Iowa said it was recalling eggs from its two plants in Iowa, distributed under the brand names Hillandale Farms, Sunny Farms and Sunny Meadow. Eggs produced by Hillandale outside of Iowa were unaffected by the recall.
The company said the recalled eggs were sold in Arkansas, California, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, Texas and Wisconsin.
This is in addition to 380,000,000 eggs recalled earlier this week by Wright County Egg. CDC has linked over 1,200 illnesses to one or both of these recalls.
Comments (1)
Read through and enter the discussion by using the form at the endAnn Quinn, consumer - August 20, 2010 5:03 PM
Mr. Marler, you know my interest is badly regulated pet food. Is
anyone looking at Salmonella in poorly regulated animal feed
here as a possible contamination source? Just askin' since it's
all one food chain and reports of Salmonella in animal feed
are fairly common.