BS: Egg Recall

Subject: BS: Egg Recall
From: Louie Roy
Date: 21 Aug 10 - 10:09 AM

If anyone have all the numbers that is on the egg recall please post.There are at least 10 numbers

Subject: RE: BS: Egg Recall
From: GUEST,999
Date: 21 Aug 10 - 10:23 AM

EXPANDED RECALL; The number of recalled eggs has grown since yesterday. Time to check the packages again. (John-Morgan/Flickr)
Wright County Egg has issued a statement on egg recall numbers and expanded its list yesterday to include nearly 380 million eggs.

The company issued its first recall on Aug. 13 following reports of salmonella outbreaks in California, Colorado and Minnesota.

According to a company press release, the affected eggs were packed in varying sizes of cartons (6-egg cartons, dozen egg cartons, 18-egg cartons, and loose eggs for institutional use and repackaging) with Julian dates ranging from 136 to 229 and plant numbers 1720 and 1942. (A Julian date is a five-digit number, consisting of a two-digit year and a three-digit day-of-year number. In a product with a short shelf life such as eggs, the year is dropped. In this example, the number 136 refers to May 16, the 136th day of the year. The number 229 refers to Aug. 17.)

The dates and codes can be found stamped on the end of the egg carton or printed on the case label. The plant number begins with the letter P and then the number. The Julian date follows the plant number, for example: P-1720 223.

In the newest recall, the affected eggs were packaged under the following brand names:

•Albertsons
•Farm Fresh
•James Farms
•Glenview
•Mountain Dairy
•Ralphs
•Boomsma
•Lund
•Kemps
•Pacific Coast

According to the company, eggs affected by the expanded recall were distributed to food wholesalers, distribution centers and food service companies in California, Arizona, Missouri, Minnesota, Texas, Georgia, Washington, Oregon, Colorado, Nevada, Iowa, Illinois, Utah, Nebraska, Arkansas, Wisconsin and Oklahoma. These companies distribute nationwide.

The prior recall included eggs packaged under the following brand names: Lucerne, Albertson, Mountain Dairy, Ralph's, Boomsma's, Sunshine, Hillandale, Trafficanda, Farm Fresh, Shoreland, Lund, Dutch Farms and Kemps.

Similarly, those eggs were packed in varying sizes of cartons (6-egg cartons, dozen egg cartons, 18-egg cartons, and loose eggs for institutional use and repackaging) with Julian dates ranging from 136 to 225 and plant numbers 1026, 1413 and 1946.

Subject: RE: BS: Egg Recall
From: GUEST,999
Date: 21 Aug 10 - 10:27 AM

Ya need a degree in logic--where`s Bill D--to figure this out.




The egg recall now includes new facilities. Here's what you need to know.

The egg recall brand from Iowa that has initiated the action has expanded the egg recall list, and it includes more plants now.

This is more important than the Dr. Laura N word scandal, so you just might want to read on…

Wright County Egg officials suggest you recheck your eggs, even if you did so after the first announcement and they weren't included in the recall then. Each egg carton has a P, then a number, at the end. The number after the P stands for the plant where the eggs come from. If the number is P1720 or P1942, here's what you do next.

You look at the three-digit number that comes after the above number. If that number is a number between 136 and 229, those eggs are part of the recall. The number represents the day of the year when the eggs came out of the plant (136 is May 16, the 136th day of the year).

If it is the first time you check, add P1026, P1413 and P1946 to the above instructions, followed by numbers ranging from 136 to 225.

If they fall under any of these, the eggs should be taken back to the store for a full refund.

Subject: RE: BS: Egg Recall
From: leeneia2
Date: 21 Aug 10 - 10:30 AM

What are we going to do with 380,000,000 chancy eggs and all their packaging? The newspaper neither asks nor tells.

Subject: RE: BS: Egg Recall
From: GUEST,999
Date: 21 Aug 10 - 10:33 AM

Surely the Pentagon has a use for them.

Subject: RE: BS: Egg Recall
From: gnu
Date: 21 Aug 10 - 10:51 AM

The Pentagon? With all the eggs they lay?

Subject: RE: BS: Egg Recall
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 21 Aug 10 - 11:22 AM

Here is the web page from the Egg Safety Center that has the current list of affected brands and details.

I'd seen this recently in an online article, it was kind of disturbing this morning to find that it wasn't in most articles (and so a bit hard to find again).

~ Becky in Tucson

Subject: RE: BS: Egg Recall
From: Louie Roy
Date: 21 Aug 10 - 04:26 PM

Thanks Desert Dancer for sharing that web page I found that page yesterday and I Xed out of it and then couldn't bring it back up I'm sure there are quite a few Mudcatters that will copy these numbers anyway thanks again Louie Roy

Subject: RE: BS: Egg Recall
From: gnu
Date: 21 Aug 10 - 04:47 PM

Ahhh.... if ya hard boil the eggs... ten minutes... no?

Subject: RE: BS: Egg Recall
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 21 Aug 10 - 05:13 PM

There's only a significant risk to health if you eat the eggs raw, anyway. I suppose there are some people who do that...

Subject: RE: BS: Egg Recall
From: Art Thieme
Date: 21 Aug 10 - 05:34 PM

ALL of these recalled eggs ought to be dropped on the raging fires.

Subject: RE: BS: Egg Recall
From: BTNG
Date: 21 Aug 10 - 05:40 PM

"ALL of these recalled eggs ought to be dropped on the raging fires."

Result, either one hell of a mess or the world's largest fried egg....

Ducks to avoid falling eggs

BTNG

Subject: RE: BS: Egg Recall
From: gnu
Date: 21 Aug 10 - 06:16 PM

Perhaps some eggs went to commercial establishments that use the eggs for things that wouldn't be "fully cooked"?

Subject: RE: BS: Egg Recall
From: Joybell
Date: 21 Aug 10 - 08:05 PM

Ah! I fondly remember the cookie-dough icecream when I visited there. I suppose it wouldn't necessarily need to use uncooked eggs though.
Cheers, Joy just in from collecting the eggs from my happy featherd pets.

Subject: RE: BS: Egg Recall
From: Tangledwood
Date: 21 Aug 10 - 08:30 PM

Disappointment. I thought this thread was going to be about shaky eggs.

Subject: RE: BS: Egg Recall
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 22 Aug 10 - 02:36 AM

I'm still trying to figure out what Plants have to do with Eggs - I thought they were laid from hens... or Ducks....

Subject: RE: BS: Egg Recall
From: gnu
Date: 22 Aug 10 - 04:30 AM

... or gooses...

Subject: RE: BS: Egg Recall
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 22 Aug 10 - 07:33 AM

Snap!

Subject: RE: BS: Egg Recall
From: Maryrrf
Date: 22 Aug 10 - 08:09 AM

Don't forget that if an egg is soft boiled, or sunny side up with a runny yoke, the runny part of the egg is for all intents and purposes raw. We work with some food safety agencies, and posed the same question to one of the officials - "Who in the heck eats raw eggs?". That's what she said - if you eat an egg with a runny yoke, you can get salmonella if the egg is contaminated. Personally I like my eggs sunny side up, and I'm trying to decide if that's what I want for breakfast this morning. Or, I could play it safe and just have an omelet...

Subject: RE: BS: Egg Recall
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 22 Aug 10 - 12:14 PM

Scramble them.

Subject: RE: BS: Egg Recall
From: GUEST,999
Date: 22 Aug 10 - 01:24 PM

Cook èm in the oven for seventeen hours. Gather them when you can touch the shells and then grind èm. Take four ZigZag papers and stick èm--the papers--together. Roll some of the ground up mixture--or ground down as the case may be--and give the joint to the dog. If he`s walkin`around next morning, reconstitute the eggs and stuff èm back in the hens. THEN, have a peanut butter sandwich. Hold the mayo.

Subject: RE: BS: Egg Recall
From: Maryrrf
Date: 22 Aug 10 - 02:18 PM

I threw caution to the wind and had a sunnyside up egg this morning. We take a risk every time we get in our cars and drive down the street - I'll just take my chances with salmonella.

Subject: RE: BS: Egg Recall
From: Leadfingers
Date: 22 Aug 10 - 03:35 PM

I hope you are still with us Mary !!

Subject: RE: BS: Egg Recall
From: gnu
Date: 22 Aug 10 - 03:36 PM

Well... I did not know that...

"Like Salmonella, bird flu viruses can infect the chickens' ovaries, so the virus can come prepackaged within the egg as well.437 During the 1983 Pennsylvania outbreak, the virus was found festering within both the egg white and the yolk, making proper cooking essential.438"

Found on www.birdflu.org so it must be true. Anyway, I hardboil all me eggs an eats em with a glass of skim milk or makes egg sandwiches and I use Miracle Whip instead of yer mayo on accounta there ain't no eggs in it. Tastes better anyway.

Subject: RE: BS: Egg Recall
From: Jeri
Date: 22 Aug 10 - 04:19 PM

Mayo (and ice cream) is made with pasteurized eggs. I had semi-wet eggs for breakfast this morning (thanks SINSULL), and fried eggs--hell, some things are worth a risk, and I don't eat eggs that often.

Miracle whip... I've gotten so I can tolerate it. I was raised with the stuff, but when I finally tasted real mayo, there was no going back. There ARE eggs in Miracle whip. From WikiAnswers:
Ingredients:
Water, soybean oil, vinegar, sugar, modified cornstarch, eggs, salt, mustard flour, paprika, spice, natural flavor, dried garlic, potassium sorbate as a perservative and enzyme modified egg yolk.

There are, however, only 40 calories in a tablespoon of Miracle whip and 90 in a tablespoon of mayo.

Subject: RE: BS: Egg Recall
From: gnu
Date: 22 Aug 10 - 04:31 PM

Oh? I stand corrected, Jeri. As for the calories, maybe that is why I am getting back my girlish figure.

Subject: RE: BS: Egg Recall
From: Art Thieme
Date: 22 Aug 10 - 04:32 PM

I recall eggs quite fondly. Because of Cholesterol, I've not tasted one in 20 years.

And when I was young, we didn't have cholesterol, but if we had we would've fried it.

Art

Subject: RE: BS: Egg Recall
From: leeneia2
Date: 23 Aug 10 - 09:46 AM

I read in the paper that 80 cases of food poisoning were caused by a restaurant in Notth Carolina that was selling pies with meringue on the top.

I have known for several years that the egg white in meringue is not cooked enough to be safe from salmonella.

And it's a rule in my house never to serve a fried egg that hasn't been turned over and cooked on both sides.

I'm afraid a lot of people haven't been paying much attention to food safety in recent years.

Subject: RE: BS: Egg Recall
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 24 Aug 10 - 03:12 AM

I'm just waiting for one of those fancy restaurants that insist on serving meat dripping with blood to have an outbreak of food poisoning - I prefer my meat cooked...

Subject: RE: BS: Egg Recall
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 24 Aug 10 - 08:15 AM

I never understand why some people claim to enjoy like raw food. Well, maybe salads and fruit, but meat and fish... Or eggs.

Subject: RE: BS: Egg Recall
From: bobad
Date: 24 Aug 10 - 08:19 AM

"And it's a rule in my house never to serve a fried egg that hasn't been turned over and cooked on both sides."

If the yolk is runny it hasn't reached the temperature required to kill salmonella.

Subject: RE: BS: Egg Recall
From: bobad
Date: 24 Aug 10 - 08:28 AM

"There are, however, only 40 calories in a tablespoon of Miracle whip and 90 in a tablespoon of mayo."

Jeri, have you tried Hellman's Light mayo with olive oil? Great tasting and 50 calories per tbsp.

Subject: RE: BS: Egg Recall
From: GUEST,999
Date: 24 Aug 10 - 12:19 PM

We had a thread once on how to cook a 10-minute egg in three minutes or maybe it was a 3-minute egg in ten minutes. Nowt to do with anything other than eggs. I like Miracle Whip.

Subject: RE: BS: Egg Recall
From: Jeri
Date: 24 Aug 10 - 12:31 PM

Nobody's perfect.
Bobad, no, I haven't tried it. I tried Hellman's Light mayo a couple years ago, and it was not a nice texture and tasted sort of Miracle Whippy. (Should say "tastes" because it's still in my fridge.) The stuff with olive oil is probably a lot better.

I'm craving fried, over-easy eggs now.

Subject: RE: BS: Egg Recall
From: lefthanded guitar
Date: 24 Aug 10 - 01:35 PM

I'd like a coupla of those eggs too, Jeri.

I haven't had an egg since the recall, tho I don 't think I live anywheres near the salmonella eggs. I get too influenced by the media screaming jeebies..

and I just LOVE eggs:

Fried over light, with buttered toast.

Hardboiled and mashed with a little mayo and celery.

Scrambled with an entire onion.

Or mushrooms and cream cheese.

Or a plain scrambled egg, ketchup on the side. With just a coupla bacon strips.

Howzabout a nice salad,with a few slices of egg?

Is it Passover yet? Matzo Brie with sprinkled with sugar, homemade jam on the side.

I'd also like a nice spinach frittata, dusted with Parmesan cheese.

Even those little slivers of egg in yang chow fried rice

Ack..ack..ack...........I GOTTA HAVE SOME EGGS!!!!!!!!!

I may have to settle for an Egg Creme, only thing on this list that don't have eggs. Sigh.

Subject: RE: BS: Egg Recall
From: Joybell
Date: 24 Aug 10 - 08:15 PM

We have poached eggs with runny yolks every day thanks to our healthy happy chooks. Except for the remote possiblility of bird disease carried by wild birds we're sitting pretty. Of course "layers' pellets" needed for egg production contain meat and that's maybe a bit of a worry. We can't allow complete free-ranging because of foxes. I might get into breeding maggots. Now to enlarging the vegie garden.
Cheers, Joy

Subject: RE: BS: Egg Recall
From: Joe Offer
Date: 25 Aug 10 - 02:53 AM

I went to Trader Joe's today. They usually have a wide selection of eggs - regular, cage-free, free range, organic, with or without Omega 3. Alas, only one kind of eggs today, an organic free-range sort. I think they were $3.69 a dozen.
I wonder if this will cause a major rise in egg prices. Marketplace on National Public Radio said today that 2 billion eggs have been recalled.

-Joe-

Subject: RE: BS: Egg Recall
From: gnu
Date: 25 Aug 10 - 05:29 AM

2B... hell of an omelette.

Subject: RE: BS: Egg Recall
From: Maryrrf
Date: 25 Aug 10 - 08:48 AM

The fact that, at Trader Joe's, all but one type of egg was recalled tells you something about the consolidation of the food industry - so many of the eggs must have come from the same source, either that, or they can't trace them. I buy cage free and/or organic, but often suspect I'm being ripped off. How can I tell that's really what they are? I have to find a local farmer who can supply me.

Subject: RE: BS: Egg Recall
From: Becca72
Date: 25 Aug 10 - 11:01 AM

For the last year or so I've been buying my eggs from a local farmer who comes to my workplace once a week and does a small farmers' market. They are the best eggs I've ever had.

Unfortunately, we Maine residents are all too familiar with Joe DeCosta who is once again at the heart of this problem.

Subject: RE: BS: Egg Recall
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 25 Aug 10 - 12:49 PM

This crisis brings to light lots of issues around our food production and safety, with lots of problems even beyond basic food safety exemplified by the DeCoster family business: NPR story - environmental, labor, animal welfare, you name it, they've had to plead guilty or settle.

The NY Times had an interesting article saying that in the UK Salmonella in eggs has been virtually eliminated by the voluntary vaccination of fowl, and that thus far the idea has been rejected over here, for fairly weak reasons.

"The drop in salmonella infections in Britain was stunning.

"In 1997, there were 14,771 reported cases in England and Wales of the most common type of the bacteria, a strain known as Salmonella Enteritidis PT4. Vaccine trials began that year, and the next year, egg producers began vaccinating in large numbers.

"The number of human illnesses has dropped almost every year since then. Last year, according to data from the Health Protection Agency of England and Wales, there were just 581 cases, a drop of 96 percent from 1997.

""We have pretty much eliminated salmonella as a human problem in the U.K.," said Amanda Cryer, director of the British Egg Information Service, an industry group. "

So, you Yookers can keep on with the 3-minute eggs, apparently.

~ Becky in Tucson

Subject: RE: BS: Egg Recall
From: Black belt caterpillar wrestler
Date: 25 Aug 10 - 02:57 PM

Just as well that we don't have to worry, we've not evolved hens that can lay eggs with the date printed on yet.

Subject: RE: BS: Egg Recall
From: Paul Burke
Date: 25 Aug 10 - 03:24 PM

The great UK egg crisis was in 1988, and caused the downfall of health minister Edwina Currie. She was just about the only Tory to resign, despite years of financial, commercial and sexual scandals; and she was right. The shock did however start the cleaning up process, and Grandmothers can once more suck in safety. The glamorous Edwina was later famous for her not inconsiderably interesting affair with Prime Minister of the time, John Major.

Subject: RE: BS: Egg Recall
From: Little Hawk
Date: 25 Aug 10 - 03:26 PM

"What are we going to do with 380,000,000 chancy eggs and all their packaging?"

Bomb Iran?

Wait...here's a better idea. Distribute the eggs nationwide to the public who can then egg the banks and Wall Street in retaliation for the financial collapse.

Subject: RE: BS: Egg Recall
From: LilyFestre
Date: 25 Aug 10 - 03:49 PM

Just another reason why we raise as much of our own food as possible, including chickens/eggs. We know what they eat, how they are cared for and they taste a bazillion times better than store eggs.

Michelle

Subject: RE: BS: Egg Recall
From: GUEST,999
Date: 26 Aug 10 - 01:48 PM

It was so windy--
How windy WAS it--
It was sooooo windy that I saw a chicken lay the same egg twice.