The Egg Recall is all over the news. I am VERY grateful that I’ve been buying most of the eggs for our family over the past months from a local farmer at our farmer’s market. To be clear – doing this doesn’t guarantee my eggs will be free from salmonella – it just protects you from searching through the recall lists and all the worry that goes with it.
Salmonella is an inherent risk associated with eggs. Just not normally not in the numbers we are seeing at the moment. One thing I know for sure… if my local farmer had a problem with their eggs – the recall numbers could NEVER amount to over a billion eggs!
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About Salmonella in Eggs
Salmonella is widely spread in nature – and especially in the intestines of birds. Salmonella doesn’t typically live inside the egg, the normal incidence of salmonella inside the egg is about .005%.
What happens if you eat an egg containing salmonella?
If the egg is has been properly handled, cooked and is served immediately – typically nothing – the bacteria is killed during cooking.
Symptoms
If you get ill from salmonella you get – Salmonellosis.
Symptoms include: abdominal cramps, diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, chills, fever and/or headache within 6 to 72 hours after eating. These typically last only a day or two in healthy people but can lead to serious complications for the very young, pregnant women, the elderly, the ill and those with immune system disorders.
Check Your Eggs
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Eggs were distributed in Arkansas, California, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, Texas, and Wisconsin.
Package Sizes:
6-egg, dozen-egg
18-egg
30-egg cartons
5-dozen-egg cases
Loose eggs were packaged under the brand names Wholesome Farms and West Creek in 15 and 30-dozen tray packs.
The number is on the Side of your Carton
The plant numbers and Julian dates affected are:
-P1860 – Julian dates ranging from 099 to 230
-P1663 – Julian dates ranging from 137 to 230
Find these numbers on the side of your packaging.
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Agreed. My eggs are local as well. Straight from the farmers market. Not that I’m not concerned about the recall, just that it doesn’t affect me personally since I chose not to buy from them from the grocery stores.
In regard to buying locally–“it just protects you from searching through the recall lists and all the worry that goes with it.”It seems that if you were to purchase contaminated eggs (or any other product) from a local farmer’s market and became sick, because they’re not selling millions, it is much more difficult to trace. Buying from local markets doesn’t protect you from searching the recall lists, it keeps us from knowing that there should be a recall on some products. Just a thought.
I love buying from local farmer’s markets too.
its interesting that the eggs farmers were being supplied by feed by the same distributor. Its all connected and all dirty
With the government wanting to get more control over the egg industry to try to prevent similar recalls in the future, expect more complex regulations, more complex paperwork, more complex inspections. The result will invariably be lax oversight by the government, higher prices for the eggs and no improvement in quality or recalls. History has proven this over and over again, the futility of complex oversight.