Egg Recall List: What You Need to Stay Safe

Are these eggs safe? (istockphoto)

(CBS) As the government oversees a massive recall of 228 million eggs due to a salmonella scare, consumers are wondering which eggs are safe and which are best to avoid.

The eggs which may be infected with salmonella are all produced in Galt, Iowa by Wright County Egg, but they are sold in retail stores as a myriad of different brands.

So here's the full list of affected brands, according to a company press release on the FDA's website.

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BRAND NAMES:

Albertson
Boomsma's
Dutch Farms
Farm Fresh
Hillandale
Kemps
Lucerne
Lund
Mountain Dairy
Ralph's
Shoreland
Sunshine
Trafficanda

DIRECTIONS:

Eggs are packed in varying sizes of cartons (6-egg cartons, dozen egg cartons, 18-egg cartons) with Julian dates ranging from 136 to 225 and plant numbers 1026, 1413 and 1946.

Dates and codes can be found stamped on the end of the egg carton. The plant number begins with the letter P and then the number. The Julian date follows the plant number, for example: P-1946 223.

WHAT TO DO?

According to a company press release, "consumers who believe they may have purchased these shell eggs should not eat them but should return them to the store where they were purchased for a full refund. This recall is of shell eggs only. Other egg products produced by Wright County Eggs are not affected. Consumers with questions should visit www.eggsafety.org."

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9 Signs of Salmonella Poisoning

[redcatlove66]

where are they going to dump these eggs?

[khw420]

To the reporter/editor: Look up "myriad." If you're not sure of the definition of a word, don't just casually use it. It doesn't make you look any smarter. There aren't thousands of brand names. And it's not "a myriad of." Learn how to use a word before you use it.

[wyodutch]

The egg factories have all but eliminated the small, local poultry and egg farmer. The little fellow used to raise his chickens in the fresh air and sunshine. Today, the egg factory is a windowless building where the chickens are housed in cages too small to even stretch their wings or exercise their legs. The feed... containing ground-up feathers, offal (animal guts) and other such material is carefully measured and automatically dispensed to the birds. When the hens reach the end of their productive lives, they're trucked to Canada where they're butchered and sent back to America in pot pies.
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At the hatchers, the day-old chicks are examined to determine their sex. The hens are shipped to the egg farm. The males are ground-up and processed into animal feed.
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You wouldn't eat an egg if you could see the conditions that it's produced under.

[Mijnada]

This isn't a scam. My husband contracted the disease and is still very ill. The disease not only gave him the typical symptoms. Fever chills diarrhea it also attacked his joints after his diarrhea cleared. He is now going on his 3rd week of this. So please don't use this as your political view on raising prices. Tell that to my husband who was you typical 40 y/o healthy (never smoked rarely drinks) 6'4 250 lbs welder/Safety personal type guy and now he looks like he is 80 years old and can barely move a joint without screaming in some pain.
The disease and the situation is all true unfortunately. I hope that anyone who else was affected got well quickly and not have to endure what we are enduring. God Bless.

[billvedra]

in my opinion this is a scam to increase the prive of eggs. all chickens have salmonela in their feathers and as they lay eggs, salmonella is on the egg shells.
it is like the raising of coffee prices. the claim that it snowed in the mountains in columbia. it snows in all mountains.

[Crack_N_Egg]

If possible and you have the opportunity, buy from a local egg supplier. I own my own chickens and supply eggs to many. My chickens free range almost all day. I help people with their own 'backyard chickens'.

[daisycutter8]

Would someone please explain to me why the media is spreading panic over salmonella in eggs? For decades we have all been aware of the potential for salmonella to be present. Check out safe handling of eggs in a cookbook. Wash your hands and the preparation and cooking surfaces before and after using eggs. Cook the eggs so the whiles and yolks are not runny. Don't eat raw cookie dough or other foods containing raw eggs. Why isn't this the messge coming from the government? Why is this a nationwide recall? I'm not going to stop buying and eating eggs.

[daisycutter8]

Would someone please explain to me why the media is spreading panic over salmonella in eggs? For decades we have all been aware of the potential for salmonella to be present. Check out safe handling of eggs in a cookbook. Wash your hands and the preparation and cooking surfaces before and after using eggs. Cook the eggs so the whiles and yolks are not runny. Don't eat raw cookie dough or other foods containing raw eggs. Why isn't this the messge coming from the government? Why is this a nationwide recall? I'm not going to stop buying and eating eggs.

[caligirl561]

Is there a list of eggs safe to eat???

[Rita_at_Goldivas]

We shouldn't have to cook everything to death because of poor sanitation, either. I always buy cage-free eggs, they're better for you, healthier, and they taste better.

[Nate650]

Cage-free is a term that doesn't mean much. While "cage-free" means the chickens are given "access to pasture," practically none of the chickens take this opportunity. Typically for a better tasting egg, one needs to buy organic/omega-3 or, optimally, "pastured" eggs, which unfortunately run about $8 a dozen in the Bay Area, but they sure are worth it.

[daisycutter8]

That's your choice. Some of us don't want to pay premium prices for eggs. Don't count on your eggs being free of salmonella. The eggs still come out of the same end of the chicken as my cheaper eggs.