FDA issues most dangerous recall for eggs sold nationwide carrying 'reasonable risk of DEATH'
Last month, California-based August Egg Company recalled 1.7million cartons of brown cage-free and certified organic eggs after they sickened 79 Americans in seven states.
On Thursday, the FDA gave the recall a Class I designation, its most dangerous classification.
This means 'there is a reasonable probability that the use of or exposure to a violative product will cause serious adverse health consequences or death.'
The eggs were sold between February 29 and May 17 in California, Washington, Illinois, Indiana, Nevada, Arizona, Nebraska, Kentucky and New Mexico. Illnesses were reported in all states except Illinois and Indiana.
But officials fear that some of the affected cartons could still be lurking in refrigerators, putting others at risk.
There have been no reported deaths, but 21 people were hospitalized from salmonella, a deadly bacteria that strikes 1.3million Americans and kills 420 a year.
A total of 29 branded egg packages were included in the recall, including brands like Raleys, Simple Truth and Sun Harvest. Scroll down to see the full list.
The packages have a Julian Date — time stamp indicating when they were packaged — between 32 and 126. The Julian Date can be found on the short side of the carton.
Salmonella is killed by cooking eggs because the bacteria cannot survive temperatures above 140F (60C).
But officials warn that cooking eggs sunnyside up is risky, saying this may lead to the top of the egg not being hot enough to kill the bacteria.
An investigation linked the outbreak to the eggs after 27 out of 30 patients interviewed reported consuming them before falling ill.
An inspection at the company's egg processing facility also detected salmonella at the factory — which was linked back to the outbreak.
Salmonella can contaminate eggs in two ways: It can enter an egg while it is forming inside a hen, or after an egg has been laid when the bacteria gets onto the shell after contact with feces and penetrates the shell.
If salmonella gets onto factory equipment, this can then spread it to multiple other eggs.
It typically causes diarrhea, fever, and stomach cramps that begin six hours to six days after initial infection, according to the CDC.
Unlike most bacteria, once consumed some strains of salmonella can survive the stomach acid and travel into the intestines.
Once there, they burrow into the cells lining the organ, causing inflammation, diarrhea, abdominal cramps and fever. The bacteria may also enter the bloodstream and travel to other organs.
Most people recover within days, though the illness is responsible for more than 26,000 hospitalizations and 400 deaths a year.
Customers are advised to throw out the recalled eggs or to return them to sellers for a full refund.
Eggs recalled due to salmonella risk
Item Name Plant Number Carton UPC
Clover Large Brown Organic 12 eggs P-6562 or CA-5330 070852010427
First Street Large Brown Cage Free Loose 1 case=150 eggs P-6562 or CA-5330 041512039638
Nulaid Medium Brown Cage Free 12 eggs P-6562 or CA-5330 071230021042
Nulaid Jumbo Brown Cage Free 12 eggs P-6562 or CA-5330 071230021011
O Organics Cage Free Large Brown 6 eggs P-6562 or CA-5330 079893401522
O Organics Large Brown 12 eggs P-6562 or CA-5330 079893401508
O Organics Large Brown 18 eggs P-6562 or CA-5330 079893401546
Marketside Large Cage Free Brown Organic 12 eggs P-6562 or CA-5330 681131122771
Marketside Large Cage Free Brown Organic 18 eggs P-6562 or CA-5330 681131122801
Marketside Large Brown Cage Free 12 eggs P-6562 or CA-5330 681131122764
Marketside Large Brown Cage Free 18 eggs P-6562 or CA-5330 681131122795
Raleys Large Brown Cage Free 12 eggs P-6562 or CA-5330 046567033310
Raleys Large Brown Cage Free 18 eggs P-6562 or CA-5330 046567040325
Raleys Organic Large Brown 12 eggs P-6562 or CA-5330 046567028798
Raleys Organic Large Brown 18 eggs P-6562 or CA-5330 046567040295
Simple Truth Medium Brown Cage Free 18 eggs P-6562 or CA-5330 011110099327
Simple Truth Large Brown Cage Free 18 eggs P-6562 or CA-5330 011110873743
Sun Harvest Cage Free Large Brown Organic 12 eggs P-6562 or CA-5330 041512131950
Sun Harvest Cage Free Large Brown Organic 18 eggs P-6562 or CA-5330 41512145162
Sunnyside Large Brown Cage Free 12 eggs P-6562 or CA-5330 717544211747
Sunnyside Large Brown Cage Free 18 eggs P-6562 or CA-5330 717544211754
Sunnyside Cage Free Large Brown Organic 12 eggs P-6562 or CA-5330 717544201441
Sunnyside Cage Free Large Brown Organic 18 eggs P-6562 or CA-5330 717544211761
Loose Small Brown Cage Free-1 box= 6 flats (1 flat= 30 eggs) P-6562 or CA-5330 NA
Loose Medium Brown Cage Free -1 box= 6 flats (1 flat= 30 eggs) P-6562 or CA-5330 NA
Loose Medium Brown Organic -1 box= 6 flats (1 flat= 30 eggs) P-6562 or CA-5330 NA
Loose Large Brown Organic -1 box=6 flats(1 flat=30 eggs) P-6562 or CA-5330 NA
Loose Jumbo Brown Cage Free -1 box=5 flats(1 flat=20 eggs) P-6562 or CA-5330 NA
Hashtags
Try Our AI Features
Explore what Daily8 AI can do for you:
Comments
No comments yet...
Related Articles
Daily Mail
an hour ago
- Daily Mail
How South Florida's soaring living costs are pricing out retirees
A number of senior citizens in South Florida are experiencing homelessness, forcing them to sleep inside their cars. Soaring rents and a lack of affordable housing has forced some of those in the Sunshine State to spend their twilight years sleeping rough. Carolyn Simon is one of those, having resorted to sleeping upright in the front seat of her car for two months due to not being able to afford a place to live. She spoke with WSVN about her troubles in May, revealing she is reliant on social security for money and parks up inside well-lit parking to catch some shuteye. Demonstrating her sleeping stance to the outlet, the 78-year-old said: 'Since I've been here, I sleep here in this seat, scrunched down. 'My ankles and legs are swollen from having to sit all the time. I buy jug water, it's cheaper. And I eat one meal a day, for $2.02, and then I get a free senior drink.' Carolyn resorted to showering at a nearby gym thanks to her Medicare plan which gets her inside the facility for free. She added: 'It can happen to anyone. Don't think it can't, because I never thought about it.' In 2019, the amount of people aged 65 and over accounted for almost eight percent of the homeless population in Miami-Dade County, the Homeless Trust said. That number had nearly doubled to a shocking 14 percent in 2024, with projections indicating it could hit 22 percent by the year 2030. In January of this year, the Department of Housing and Urban Development said in a report that homelessness had reached a record high in 2024. Over 770,000 had experienced homeless on a single night in 2024, an increase of around 18 percent compared to 2023. The report found that 146,000 found that older adults had experienced homelessness, an increase of six percent. Maria Navarro, another elderly Florida resident like Carolyn, spoke with CBS News last October, revealing how despite working seven days a week, she still has to sleep in her car. She told the outlet it is very depressing at times and that instead of enjoying retirement she uses a dumpster area to shower using buckets. Ron Book, Chairman of the Miami-Dade Homeless Trust, said homeless seniors are among the most vulnerable. He told the outlet: 'The face of homelessness has changed. I want people in our community to think about their mothers, and their grandmothers, and their grandfathers being homeless for the first time. After Carolyn's story was aired last month, local leaders banded together to help her find accommodation.
The Guardian
4 hours ago
- The Guardian
Nurse on new CDC vaccine panel said to have been ‘anti-vax longer than RFK'
One of the new members of a critical federal vaccine advisory board has argued for decades that vaccines caused her son's autism – a connection that years of large-scale studies and reviews refute. Registered nurse Vicky Pebsworth is one of eight new members to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (Acip), all hand-picked by the vaccine skeptic and Donald Trump's health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr. 'She's probably been anti-vax longer than RFK has,' said Dr David Gorski, a Wayne State University School of Medicine professor, who is considered an expert on the anti-vaccine movement. Kennedy fired all 17 of the committee's previous members in June and stacked it with ideological allies. Pebsworth and Kennedy would have probably been known to each other, because their respective non-profits supported one another's efforts. 'If I had a child who I believed had been harmed by whatever – it doesn't have to be vaccines – I wouldn't then trust myself to be on a federal safety commission on that issue,' said Seth Mnookin, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor in science journalism who met and profiled Pebsworth in the mid-2000s. Pebsworth was also part of a 2020 lawsuit against Covid-19 vaccine mandates that aligns with Kennedy's agenda. In a declaration to federal court, Pebsworth argued that 'increases in the number of vaccines in the CDC schedule may be causally related to increases in the rates of chronic illness', an assertion that appears to be based on a debunked study, but has long been a talking point of anti-vaccine activists. 'They're the oldest prominent organization,' said Mnookin, whose book is called The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear. The information center represents 'the start of the modern-day anti-vaccine movement in the US', said Mnookin. Pebsworth joined Acip from the National Vaccine Information Center, where she has served as volunteer research director since 2006, according to a résumé filed in the same case. The Guardian sent a list of questions and an interview request to Pebsworth, but did not receive a response. The National Vaccine Information Center started in Virginia as Dissatisfied Parents Together in 1982, before changing its name in 1995. The group went on to receive major funding support from Dr Joseph Mercola, once described as 'the most influential spreader of coronavirus misinformation online'. Like other new members of Acip, Pebsworth comes to the role with medical credentials; she has a doctorate degree in nursing, taught college research courses and served as a consumer representative on federal panels. For decades, she has publicly argued that her son, Sam, was injured by the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine in 1998 – despite evidence showing there is no connection between vaccines and autism. Pebsworth organized conferences about alternative treatments for autism as early as 2001, including one in Michigan where then-doctor Andrew Wakefield spoke and where she told a reporter she had placed her son on a restrictive diet and administered chelation therapy – a treatment for heavy metal poisoning. Neither has been found to effectively treat autism. 'Back then in the early 2000s or the late 1990s, there were two main flavors of the anti-vax,' said Gorski. In Britain, Wakefield's paper in the Lancet proposed a link between the MMR vaccine and autism. His paper would be retracted in 2010 amid evidence of fraud and conflicts of interest. 'But then there was the American flavor with mercury and thimerosal, which had been used in several childhood vaccines as a preservative,' said Gorski. 'Back in the day we used to call them the 'mercury militias', but others used to call it the 'mercury moms'.' Thimerosal is a vaccine preservative that has been used since before the second world war. Its safety is considered settled science and yet it has been the subject of misinformation for decades. A galvanizing moment for the anti-vaccine movement came in 2015, when one of the worst measles outbreaks in years tore through Disneyland in California. The outbreak prompted lawmakers to tighten vaccine requirements for schools, drawing parents into the fray and providing a platform for anti-vaccine groups. 'I used to call anti-vax the pseudoscience that spanned the political spectrum – you could find leftwing anti-vaxxers, rightwing anti-vaxxers,' said Gorski. 'But now it's really, really built into the right,' he said. 'You can't deny that any more. It's become part of rightwing ideology.' In 2017, Pebsworth testified before a Virginia house subcommittee against a school mandate for a meningitis vaccine. In 2020, as Americans anxiously waited for a Covid-19 vaccine, she warned Americans could face unknown consequences from the vaccines. Pebsworth later testified in 2021 before the University of Hawaii's board of regents, arguing against Covid-19 vaccines. In most public testimony, Pebsworth identifies herself not only as the volunteer research director for the National Vaccine Information Center, but also as 'the mother of a child injured by his 15-month well-baby shots in 1998'. 'Groups like hers and probably even more prominently the Informed Consent Action Network have seen that most vaccine policy is at the state level,' said an expert in state vaccine law who declined to go on the record for fear of retaliation from the Department of Health and Human Services. 'They have a list of model legislation they encourage supporters to try to get introduced,' the expert said. At the same time, the groups have failed to accomplish their 'big swings': getting schools to drop vaccine mandates. The expert continued: 'My sense is that legislators know they're hearing from a very vocal minority. Landslide majorities still support requirements. It's lower than it was before the pandemic, but the public still understands the needs for these laws.' By 2017, Trump was weighing whether this vocal group could become part of his coalition. Before his first inauguration in early January 2017, Trump publicly said he was considering Kennedy to head a new committee on vaccines and autism. Only days before she was appointed to ACIP, Pebsworth and the founder of the National Vaccine Information Center argued against Covid-19 vaccines, stating in part: 'FDA should not be recommending mRNA Covid-19 shots for anyone until adequate scientific evidence demonstrates safety and effectiveness for both the healthy and those who are elderly or chronically ill.' More than 270 million Americans have received Covid-19 vaccines, and the federal government has closely monitored for rare events. That old trope of thimerosal played a leading role in the first meeting of Kennedy's reconstituted Acip panel. Committee members heard a presentation against thimerosal from Lyn Redwood, the former president of the World Mercury Project, which would become Kennedy's anti-vaccine group Children's Health Defense. A report on thimerosal's safety by career CDC scientists was pulled from the meeting by Kennedy's office. Ultimately, members recommended against seasonal influenza vaccines that contain thimerosal in a decision that shocked medical and scientific communities. Pebsworth abstained, arguing she wanted to vote separately on whether to recommend influenza vaccines. Pebsworth later said she wanted to vote separately on whether to recommend seasonal flu vaccines. She did not respond to questions from the Guardian about how she would have voted on flu shots, if she had the chance.
The Independent
4 hours ago
- The Independent
What's behind the global surge of new Covid variant XFG – and should you get vaccinated?
A new Covid variant, XFG, is spreading across the world, with Southeast Asia countries reporting a surge in cases. In the UK, the Health Security Agency has said the variant accounted for 30 per cent of cases in England in late June. However, the true extent of the variant's spread remains uncertain, largely due to a significant reduction in Covid-19 testing compared to the peak of the global pandemic five years ago. What do we know about the variant XFG? XFG is a mix of earlier variants LF.7 and LP.8.1.2, with the earliest sample collected on 27 January 2025, according to the WHO. As of 22 June 2025, there were 1648 XFG sequences detected from 38 countries, representing 22.7 per cent of the global cases that week, up from 7.4 per cent four weeks prior. The variant has been the fastest growing in the last month compared to any other currently circulating types. Recent reports from Southeast Asian countries have shown a simultaneous rise in cases and hospitalisations of this variant. However WHO has designated the risk of this new variant as 'low' and commented that current data do not indicate that this variant leads to more severe illness or deaths than other variants in circulation. Why has there been a surge in new cases? The World Health Organization (WHO) lists Stratus as one of its 'variants under monitoring', which means they may require prioritised attention and tracking by health authorities due to their increased prevalence and potential public health implications. The WHO has said the growth advantage this variant has over others is 'moderate', as XFG is growing substantially across all WHO regions. Data shows from the week of 5 May to the week of 26 May, XFG has increased in proportion across main global regions, including from 10.6 per cent to 16.7 per cent in Europe and from 7.8 per cent to 26.5 per cent in the Americas (AMR). In Southeast Asia, the XFG proportion increased from 17.3 per cent to 68.7 per cent in the Southeast Asia Region (SEAR). 'It is normal for viruses to mutate and change over time,' Dr Alex Allen, consultant epidemiologist of UKHSA said, adding that it continues to monitor all strains of Covid in the UK What are the symptoms? One reported symptom of Stratus is a hoarse throat, according to some experts. 'One of the most noticeable symptoms of the Stratus variant is hoarseness, which includes a scratchy or raspy voice', Dr Kaywaan Khan, Harley Street GP and founder of Hannah London Clinic, told Cosmopolitan UK He said in general, the symptoms of Stratus tend to be 'mild to moderate'. Healthcare experts have stressed, however, that there is no evidence that the new strain is more deadly or serious than previous variants, and that current Covid vaccines are expected to remain effective and protect anyone infected from severe illness. Should you get vaccinated? Under UK guidelines, people aged 75 years and older, residents in care homes for older people, and those aged 6 months and over with a weakened immune system were offered a dose of Covid-19 vaccine this spring. Patients were offered an appointment between April and June, with those at highest risk being called in first. If you are turning 75 years of age between April and June, you do not have to wait until your birthday; you can attend when you are called for vaccination. For the next round of vaccinations, patients will be able to book from 1 September 2025 for vaccines to be given from 1 October, NHS England has advised health providers. The NHS will get in touch to offer you the Covid vaccine if you are eligible.
