If you have eggs in your fridge and you don’t know where they came from, you should probably just throw them out. As of yesterday evening, an estimated 380 million eggs have been recalled after a salmonella outbreak was linked to one of the largest egg-producing farms, Wright County Farms owned by controversial self-made man Jack DeCoster, in the United States. It’s a farm that’s had its share of troubles before, but never anything quite like this. Before it’s all over, this may be the largest egg recall ever in the world.
The eggs were sold under the following litany of brand names: Lucerne, Mountain Dairy, Sunshine, Hillandale, Trafficanda, Albertson, Farm Fresh, Shoreland, James Farms, Glenview, Mountain Dairy, Ralph’s, Boomsma’s, Lund, Dutch Farms, Kemps, and Pacific Coast. Some eggs recalled were shipped as recently as two days ago, in the early stages of the outbreak. According to the CDC, you can tell the safety of your eggs by looking at the plant code and date stamped on the label or carton. The dates range from 136-229, and the plant numbers are 1026, 1413, 1942, and 1946. At least, those are the current ones.
Remember the old days, when eggs were only bad for your long-term health and not instantly dangerous? And when giant eggs were cool oddities, not death-spheres full of double-yolked poison?
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