And I repeat: cook your food please.

[draggonlaady]

Wright County Egg in Galt, Iowa, has launched a recall of eggs sold under multiple brand names: Lucerne, Albertson, Mountain Dairy, Ralph's, Boomsma's, Sunshine, Hillandale, Trafficanda, Farm Fresh, Shoreland, Lund, Dutch Farms and Kemps. They were distributed nationwide. The recall covers eggs in their shells packed between May 16 and Aug. 13. They come in cartons ranging from six to 18 eggs and are marked with plant numbers P-1026, P-1413 and P-1946. The eggs should be returned for a refund and not consumed.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2010-08-18-salmonella18_ST_N.htm

Comments

[interactiveleaf.livejournal.com]

Thanks. Reposted.

[draggonlaady.livejournal.com]

No problem :) Scramble them well, no over-easy!

[interactiveleaf.livejournal.com]

I give 'em raw to my dogs. That's because I buy them from a local family who keep eggs and goats; sometimes we make ice cream with the eggs and give some back.

[draggonlaady.livejournal.com]

Unlikely you'd be affected by this particular recall then, if they are eggs from the family's chickens.

[interactiveleaf.livejournal.com]

I have a recipe for a raw-egg nog with spiced rum . . . OMG SO GOOD!

[draggonlaady.livejournal.com]

Not really a fan of rum, I do like eggnog :)

[interactiveleaf.livejournal.com]

Then I guess the connection between the egg post and the one that explains how to spice rum wasn't as inherently obvious for you as it was for me. :)

[draggonlaady.livejournal.com]

Also, I hadn't refreshed my friends page, so didn't know you'd posted it...

[sphynx-again.livejournal.com]

I like my eggs over medium... where the whites are cooked through, but the yolks are runny. Or I like them plopped raw in the bottom of a soup bowl, with the simmering soup poured in on top, mostly cooking the egg. But near as I can tell, my plant number starts with an N, probably because it's one of the "cage free" Lucerne brands.

I must also point out that it's rather disturbing that they are just now getting around to recalling eggs that were packed in May. Shouldn't those eggs have been long since used or tossed out by now?

[draggonlaady.livejournal.com]

Apparently, they just now managed to trace all the illnesses back to one source. Remember all the hullaballoo about how a 48 hour trace back is needed for animals entering the food chain? and how so many farmers threw temper tantrums about how the government was going to ruin their businesses by demanding this? well the government gave up, and so trace back of meat and poultry is sketchy at best, depending on the records of a huge range of processors and farmers, with no standard methods or easy access. Isn't that comforting?
Anyway, I don't know if eggs would even be included in that had it been instituted, but there is certainly no real good program for tracing back contaminated food currently. Look how long it took them to figure out where the contaminated salads were packaged last year...