Latest Salmonella Egg Recall Information
The latest Salmonella egg recall information is provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in an outbreak investigation update. The CDC is reporting that a total of nearly 2,000 illnesses are being examined as possbily part of the nationwide Salmonella Enteritidis egg outbreak.
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The associated Salmonella egg recall by Wright County Egg of Galt, Iowa, has been expanded to cover 380 million eggs, or 32 million egg cartons.
According to the CDC, public health officials in 10 states since April have identified 26 restaurants or events where more than one ill person with the outbreak strain of Salmonella Enteritidis has eaten.
Data from these investigations suggest that shell eggs are a likely source of infections in many of these restaurants or events. Preliminary information indicates that Wright County Egg, in Galt, Iowa, was an egg supplier in 15 of these 26 restaurants or events, the CDC said.
Formal tracebacks conducted by public health officials in California, Colorado, and Minnesota have found that shell eggs from five of these restaurants or events were from a single firm, Wright County Egg in Galt, Iowa. California alone has had more than 200 of these cases so far this year -- far more than normal for the state during this time period.
An extensive federal investigation taking place at Wright County Egg in Iowa is looking for potential sources of contamination, such as feed, the CDC press release said.
All indications are that this Salmonella Enteritidis egg outbreak could be one of the largest food poisoning episodes of 2010.
From May 1 to July 31, 2010, a total of 1,953 Salmonella Enteritidis illnesses were reported on CDC's national molecular subtyping network, PulseNet. The normal count of Salmonella Enteritidis cases over the same period is about 700.
A key to the investigation is distinguishing the egg cases from non-outbreak background cases.
Law firm PritzkerOlsen, P.A. is providing free case consultations to anyone who has eaten eggs and fallen ill. For information about a Salmonella egg lawsuit, call the firm at 1-888-377-8900 (Toll Free) or complete the contact form on the side of this Web page.
PritzkerOlsen is a leading food safety law firm involved in virtually every foodborne illness outbreak in the United States. The firm has collected millions of dollars on behalf of people injured or killed as a result of adulterated food, including eggs contaminated with Salmonella.
