An Iowa egg producer is recalling 228 million eggs after being linked to an outbreak of salmonella poisoning.
The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said eggs from Wright County Egg in Galt, Iowa, were linked to several illnesses in Colorado, California and Minnesota. The CDC said about 200 cases of the strain of salmonella linked to the eggs were reported weekly during June and July, four times the normal number of such occurrences.
State health officials say tainted eggs have sickened at least 266 Californians and seven in Minnesota.
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.
Solution: get your own chickens. In most cities they are legal to own. Eggs are free and safe.
Related story. “Poisoned” eggs in Spain.
Also: Bad eggs in the UK
That chick looks eeeeeeevil, like some kind of chicken mastermind.
I watched the movie Food Inc on Netflix. WOW what a eye opener. I am surprised the news networks don’t push this more. But then their is the advertising revenue.
I boil my eggs. Salmonella or no, nothing survives 20 minutes of boiling water except prior like madcow disease and salmonella is just a bacteria.
Next!
Uh … “prior” = “prions”.
Did I do a post-FAIL? Yes.
Where is the damn edit button when I need it!
This chicken is in trouble.
I guess I haven’t been paying attention. I thought they started vaccinating chickens against salmonela over a decade ago. What happened? Did the wingnuts decide safe chickens were roo dangerous?
23 Hmeyeres: you boil your eggs 20 minutes?!?!? Must be like hockie pucks. The bacteria is killed at 160 degrees farenheit. Boiling takes them to 212. If you find the egg yolks are green, that’s because they are overcooked. Cooking them that long must make them easier to peel. Hard to damage the rubber beneath the shell.
Besides, I like a little salmonella now and then. Just to keep things running, you know?
Salmonella is difficult to kill with cooking. Conversely cooks are regularly killed by salmonella.
#24, HMeyers
Uh … “prior” = “prions”.
Did I do a post-FAIL? Yes.
Where is the damn edit button when I need it!
Don’t sweat it. That was prior to being a prion. If it was a can of paint you would pryoff not pryon.
But as any parent of an infant can tell you, crap happens.