Over 2 million eggs are being recalled after concerns they may carry salmonella, a bacterium that kills over 420 Americans each year. The FDA announced the recall of 1.7 million brown, cage-free, certified organic eggs from California-based August Egg Company, linked to \u201c21 hospitalisations and 79 illnesses.\u201d<\/p>\n
Where and How the Eggs Were Sold<\/strong><\/p>\n The contaminated eggs were sold between February 29 and May 17 in seven states: California, Washington, Nevada, Arizona, Nebraska, Kentucky, and New Jersey. Authorities warn that \u201csome of the contaminated boxes might still be hiding in refrigerators and endangering other people.\u201d Customers are advised to \u201cthrow out or return the recalled eggs for a complete refund.\u201d<\/p>\n Salmonella and Cooking Safety<\/strong><\/p>\n Salmonella infects eggs either during the hen\u2019s development or after laying, when bacteria contact the shell. The bacteria \u201ccannot withstand temperatures above 140F (60C),\u201d so properly cooking eggs by frying or boiling destroys it. However, officials warn that \u201cboiling eggs sunnyside up\u201d can be dangerous because \u201cthe top of the egg [may] not be hot enough to destroy the bacteria.\u201d<\/p>\n Symptoms and Prevention<\/strong><\/p>\n Each year, about 1.35 million Americans get salmonella from contaminated food or water. Symptoms like \u201cdiarrhoea, cramping, nausea, and vomiting\u201d appear within hours to days. While many recover quickly, severe cases may cause \u201chigh fevers, pains, headaches, and recurrent diarrhoea,\u201d and rarely the infection spreads to other organs, which could be fatal. Officials also caution that \u201can infected patient may transmit the bacterium to others by coming into contact with contaminated surfaces.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Over 2 million eggs are being recalled after concerns they may carry salmonella, a bacterium that kills over 420 Americans each year. The FDA announced the recall of 1.7 million brown, cage-free, certified organic...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3796,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3795"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3797,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3795\/revisions\/3797"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}