The year of the rotten (or rather, infected) egg isn’t over yet. The Cal-Maine Foods company has announced a recall after learning that around 24,000 dozen eggs that it processed and repackaged had originally come from a facility that tested positive for salmonella.
Cal-Maine said they received the eggs from a supplier called Ohio Fresh, which is where the positive salmonella results popped up. The company then distributed the eggs to food wholesalers and retailers in Arkansas, California, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma and Texas.
Luckily, there are no reports yet of customers being sickened by the purchased eggs.
Here are the names, UPC codes, Julian dates and sell-by dates for the recalled eggs:
Plant numbers and Julian dates can be found printed on the individual cartons. The Julian date follows the plant number, for example P1457-282.
Consumers who believe they may have purchased potentially affected shell eggs should not eat them but should return them to the store where they were purchased for a full refund. Questions and concerns may also be directed to Cal-Maine’s corporate office at 1-866-276-6299 between 8:00 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. CDT.
Cal-Maine Foods, Inc. Conducts Voluntary Egg Recall [FDA.gov]
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“The Cal-Maine Foods company has announced a recall of around 24,000 dozen eggs that it processed and repackaged after learning of a positive test for salmonella.”
The way this is written it kinda makes it seem like they knowingly processed and repackaged tainted eggs.
All foods should be tested, and come back negative before it gets sent out, so stuff like this wouldn’t happen.
That’s not always feasible. Freshness sells, and waiting a week or so for testing can make a big difference. Granted, with refrigeration, the shelf life of eggs can be several weeks. But they do change with age, with certain applications requiring fresher materials.
All it boils down to (no pun intended) is that if you’re using them in an application where they are not fully cooked, you should start with pasteurized or irradiated eggs.
Captain Hindsight to the rescue!
salmonella taint, awesome. i wish i had a band so i could change our name to that.
This could have been avoided, if only they kept the eggs away from their ‘taint.
I came here to post the same thing. Damn you, chefboyardee. I love your raviolis though.
Where are our genetically modified chickens that are immune to salmonella?
Are all our scientists busy eating twinkies? Can’t they do both at once?
I would rather have chickens genetically modified to lay Twinkies.
Genetically modified taint, even better. Gigitty.
I would rather have humanely raised chickens. This wasn’t an issue before chickens were raised and forced to live in piles of their own shit.
Actually, it was. Food poisoning was rather more common even just a generation earlier. Matter of fact, letting the chickens ‘free roam’ would increase the problem because wild birds is the biggest way samonella gets introduced to these farms(from what I’ve read, not a chicken farmer).
As for the GP – no genetic modification needed, they can vaccinate the chickens.
My question is if the original egg recall happened in August/September how is it a public company like Cal Maine is issuing a recall related to those eggs today? Do they not have product tracability? After they knew the eggs were tainted they continued to buy from the supplier and the supplier shipped tainted eggs? Or do eggs really have a 10 week shelf life in some states? I know that is not the case in California? By my math all these eggs should be expired. Doubt you can find any in the stores but possibly in refrigerators at home. Does it not seem like there is something wrong in the supply chain to anyone else if this is related to Ohio Fresh as well?
I’d make my own eggs at home, but we have foxes.
Indeed. Apparently, we have wolves too O_o
These eggs seem to be over a month old based on the sell-by dates.
Though it seems these are old eggs that have been repackaged and should’ve been dealt with a while ago, this whole situation again begs the question – why can’t we raise animals healthily?
That would cut into corporate profits. Stop being silly.
Why can’t we raise humans healthily? Even people get sick sometimes.
While that is true, we also don’t spend our entire lives living knee deep in our own shit.
There’s possibly Salmonella on my huevo’s taint?
Taint. lol.