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FDA Elevates Midwest Poultry Egg Recall to Class I Over Salmonella Risk

The reclassification signals a reasonable probability of serious illness or death as investigators trace a Salmonella Enteritidis outbreak linked to the recalled eggs.

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration updated its July recall of about 19 million eggs linked to a multi-state salmonella outbreak and sold at Texas Kroger stores with the highest risk classification. 
The recall impacts eggs sold under brands like Kroger and Simple Truth, with specific identifying codes and sell-by dates from July 20 to August 17.

Overview

  • Federal regulators reclassified the voluntary Midwest Poultry Services recall as Class I on Wednesday, Aug. 12, marking the agency’s highest-risk designation for a food product.
  • The recall covers about 1,589,577 dozen eggs produced June 6–July 3 with plant codes P-1950 or 0840962 and Julian dates 157–184, sold under multiple brands including Kroger, Simple Truth, Brookshire’s, Country Morning and Sunups.
  • Laboratory, traceback and interview data link the recalled eggs to a multistate Salmonella Enteritidis outbreak that has sickened 98 people in 17 states and hospitalized 26, though investigators say the producer does not account for every case.
  • Midwest Poultry Services stopped distributing fresh eggs from the two implicated Texas farms on July 22 after internal environmental monitoring and root-cause testing identified contamination, and consumers are urged to return or discard affected cartons and thoroughly clean surfaces.
  • Officials are continuing traceback and lab work to find other possible sources and have noted that some outbreak isolates show reduced susceptibility to certain antibiotics, which could affect treatment for severe infections and warrants close clinical monitoring.