April 2018 BIG EGG RECALL hits 9 US States

(Candy Lind) #1

In case you’re not aware, there is a BIG VOLUNTARY EGG RECALL, due to Salmonella infection, affecting groceries and restaurants in 9 US states. Over 200 million eggs are involved.

The linked FDA page says eggs “reached consumers in the following states: Colorado, Florida, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia through retail stores and restaurants via direct delivery.” The two stores that jumped out at me on the list were Food Lion & WalMart.

If you’re in these states, check out your egg supply & ask at restaurants if they are aware of the recall before ordering.

Keep an eye on that page, because I know they’ve added additional lots since it first published.

Don’t you have to ask “So, what’s that inspector doing on-site there every day, that this wasn’t caught?” :thinking:

#eggs #ketointhewild #restaurantsurvival

(Brian) #2

Makes me glad I’m buying local from a guy right down the road…

(Banting & Yudkin & Atkins & Eadeses & Cordain & Taubes & Volek & Naiman & Bikman ) #3

It’s funny. They’re from a neighboring state, but not sold here in Illinois…

Happy.

Still only buying the pastured eggs, with 100+ sqft per chicken.

(Candy Lind) #4

Company is in IL, but the farm is in NC. But heck, they got all the way to CO! The craziness of food logistics astounds us drivers sometimes. We’ve trucked cheese fries out of ID to WI and then regular fries back the other way THROUGH ID to WA state. And oranges from FL to CA and vice-versa. (Head-scratching ensues)

(Lauren) #5

And now I’m even happier that my eggs come from my mom’s 3 billion (seems like…really like 60) chickens.

(Candy Lind) #6

One of these days maybe I’ll have some chickens. Gotta have a dream, right? :blush:

(Brian) #7

That’s a nice sized flock. I had a flock like that about 25 years ago. Sold a few eggs to help pay for the feed the girls ate and enjoyed all of the eggs I wanted. They weren’t a whole lot of work most of the time, either. They had their own pasture that had a little stream that ran through. It was a pretty good life for a chicken. :slight_smile:

(Candy Lind) #8

My “pasture” will have to be a fortress. There are too many predators that would threaten the chickens AND the eggs. I’ll never be able to keep the snakes out completely, but we’ll have to deal with foxes, coyotes, ringtails, raccoons, bobcats … like I said, a fortress. :woman_shrugging:

(Brian) #9

It is harder in some places than others. A friend of mine jokes about her chicken “fort knox”. She lost quite a few hens getting all of the soft spots hardened. But she’s doing well now.

(Sheri Knauer) #10

Thankful here that I live in a rural community and buy my eggs from local friends/farms.

(Chris) #11

This is my hell. I’m on the edge of state forest and my yard is home to a family of black bears and a few extended families of raccoons. Probably some wildcat too but I haven’t seen any.