Hillandale Farms of Iowa on Friday voluntarily recalled 170 million eggs produced from April 9 after epidemiologists in Minnesota are connected its products salmonella outbreak in May. In two previous recalls in the last 8 days, another company, Iowa, Wright County Egg, recalled 380 million eggs, some laid back in mid-May.
The newly recalled eggs were distributed in 14 states in the West and Midwest. As previously recalled eggs, the vast majority of them are alleged to have already eaten.
Latest recall grew out of the investigation, federal and state scientists in the sharp increase in infections caused by Enteritidis Salmonella, the second-leading cause of food borne illness. In May, June and July, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention received samples from the 1953 S. Enteritidis cases. Usually at this time, he receives about 700.
Salmonella outbreak relatively common, and are often the source of contamination and found none. It is likely that two eggs outbreaks involving Iowa farm accident and accidentally caught because of increased investigative attention on the problem.
"The investigation is still in the process of identifying potential community", said Sherri Mc Garry from the Food and Drug Administration Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition.
One of the main things the investigators are trying to determine whether the two companies share the reasons for its products have become infected.
A spokesman for Hillandale Farms, Julie DeYoung, said Friday that the company and Wright County Egg to make use of the same suppliers. "One of these suppliers, the quality of eggs SRL, which supplies chicks and feed for both companies and is the property of the family Decoster", she said. Egg Wright County is one of the many holdings of the family Decoster in APC.
Hillandale Farm of Iowa is part of a private national network of poultry and dairy farms. This 2 million chickens in two towns in Iowa, Alden and Western Union, said De Young. Its output is currently sent to a processing plant where the eggs are broken and the liquid is white and the yolks are processed in such a way that kills all bacteria. The same applies to the Wright County produce eggs. ad_icon
Testing is whether households appear to have are harboring the bacteria in their poultry, eggs, chicken coop or chicken feed. The tests will not be completed until next week, said the official FDA. Overall, 26 outbreaks of salmonellosis associated with restaurant food under investigation. In 15 of them, the original surveillance epidemiologists noted Wright County Egg Galt, Iowa, as a supplier, at least some of the eggs in places where people eat.
In five of these outbreaks, FDA scientists scoured records in restaurants, egg wholesalers, distributors, processors and farms, and found that Wright County products, in fact, used in restaurants, an epidemiologist at CDC said Friday. Government investigators and the health status of students 11 other outbreaks, to see if the source of infection could be found.
This study was one of those outbreaks - 7 people who get sick after eating at a restaurant chili Rellenos Minnesota May - which led to Hillandale Farms, said Josh rounds, an epidemiologist at the Minnesota Department of Health. In two other outbreaks of Minnesota, 1 with three cases in mid-June, and another involving four cases at the end of last month, products from Wright County Egg seem to participate, "he said.
Salmonella Enteritidis infections can cause nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhea and fever. The disease may be briefly heavy, but is rarely life-threatening. In people with low immune systems, such as AIDS patients, however, it can lead to deadly blood infection.
No deaths were reported in 26 outbreaks, which are part of national studies. In a report published this week, CDC estimates there are 76 million food illnesses in the United States each year. The vast majority, however, no investigation was conducted by state health authorities.
Recently tabulate the year 2007, 1,097 were investigated outbreaks is 21244 cases and 18 deaths
