It
is the largest recall of eggs in the United States since 2010,
the Food Safety News website reported.
The eggs may have been contaminated with salmonella braenderup,
an organism which can cause serious and sometimes fatal
infections in young children, frail or elderly people and others
with weakened immune systems, the FDA said on Friday in a
statement.
The eggs were recalled by producer Rose Acre Farms of Seymour,
Indiana "through an abundance of caution," the FDA's statement
said.
The eggs were distributed from a farm in Hyde County, North
Carolina, which, Food Safety News said, produces 2.3 million
eggs per day from 3 million laying hens.
The eggs reached consumers in Florida, New York, Pennsylvania,
North Carolina, New Jersey, Virginia, Colorado, South Carolina,
and West Virginia.
(Reporting by Bernie Woodall in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; Editing
by Nick Zieminski)
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