Another Chicken Thread...

[Lord Jim]

Recall of tainted eggs expands

By MARY CLARE JALONICK, Associated Press Writer Mary Clare Jalonick, Associated Press Writer – Fri Aug 20, 5:38 pm ET

WASHINGTON – The nationwide recall of tainted eggs expanded Friday as a second Iowa egg farm was linked to the ongoing investigation of a salmonella outbreak that has already sickened more than 1,000 people.

Iowa's Hillandale Farms said Friday it was recalling its eggs after laboratory tests confirmed illnesses associated with them. The company did not say how many eggs were being recalled or if it is connected to Wright County Egg, another Iowa farm that recalled 380 million eggs earlier this week.

An FDA spokeswoman said the two recalls are related. The strain of salmonella poisoning is the same strain linked to Wright County Egg.

The eggs recalled Friday were distributed under the brand names Hillandale Farms, Sunny Farms, Sunny Meadow, Wholesome Farms and West Creek. The new recall applies to eggs sold between April and August.

Hillandale said the eggs were distributed to grocery distribution centers, retail groceries and food service companies which service or are located in fourteen states, including Arkansas, California, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, Texas, and Wisconsin.

CDC officials said Thursday that the number of illnesses related to the outbreak is expected to grow. That's because illnesses occurring after mid-July may not be reported yet, said Dr. Christopher Braden, an epidemiologist with the federal Centers for Disease Control.

Almost 2,000 illnesses from the strain of salmonella linked to both recalls were reported between May and July, almost 1,300 more than usual, Braden said. No deaths have been reported. The CDC is continuing to receive information from state health departments as people report their illnesses.

The most common symptoms of salmonella are diarrhea, abdominal cramps and fever within eight hours to 72 hours of eating a contaminated product. It can be life-threatening, especially to those with weakened immune systems.

The form of salmonella tied to the outbreak can be passed from chickens that appear healthy. And it grows inside eggs, not just on the shell, Braden noted.

Thoroughly cooking eggs can kill the bacteria. But health officials are recommending people throw away or return the recalled eggs.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100820/ap_ ... ted_eggs_9

[dales]

I'm not buying any eggs in the interm.

The money I save, I can buy something lezz hazardous................

[Gob]

Hillandale Farms, Sunny Farms, Sunny Meadow, Wholesome Farms and West Creek.

What wholesome names!

[Andrew D]

Fortunately for us, and for the chickens, my wife and I buy only free-range chickens raised on a hormone- and antibiotic-free diet right here in North California.

[Gob]

We buy all ours from this place.

Our Vision: To be a model of restorative natural agriculture, growing bio-diversity and building environmental capital; to be shared for the benefit of future generations.

Mulloon Creek Natural Farms is a grazing, cropping and carbon building enterprise covering two farms in close proximity to each other on the Mulloon Creek, east of Canberra, towards the coast and approximately 280 km south of Sydney. The total holding is 2300 hectares or 5700 acres, with one property, “The Home Farm” covering 4300 acres and the other, “Duralla”, covering 1450 acres. The former occupies all of a small valley adjacent to and straddling the Great Dividing Range and the other is in more open country. On “The Home Farm” there is approximately 1800 acres of native forest.

Both properties are organic using the biodynamic system of agriculture and MCNF is a member of the Biological Farmers of Australia (BFA). Our purpose is to be a diverse, sustainable working role model of excellence for profitable biodynamic production and landscape restoration together with outstanding research and education programmes.

Our farms are certified ‘A’ grade biodynamic. Everything starts with the biological dynamism of the soil itself where we respect and encourage through our methods the dynamic inter-relationship of the flora and fauna within the soil and the connections and influence of the unseen but measurable cosmic forces. The founder of biodynamic agriculture, Rudolph Steiner, 80 years ago said, “The knowledge and working together of the cosmic and the terrestrial factors is the first objective of agricultural science.” The biodynamic practitioner balances these two realms through knowledge of how the terrestrial and cosmic forces work. This “life force” in the soil, plants and animals is what the peasant farmers of old and the ancients understood, and is what we believe is lacking today - “lifeforce” is the goal that goes beyond just “nutrition”.

[loCAtek]

Uh-oooooooooooooh, I was wondering why I felt so bad Thursday. See, I sometimes get a coulpa hard-boiled eggs from the Quik-E-Mart at break.

You know me, you could throw me in a sack with a pair of wild weasels and toss me down a rocky hill side, into a field of brair patches. Shake me out and drag me behind a truck with a bad clutch, for ten miles of dirt road ...and I'll just get up, say 'ow' and slap you with one of the weasels.

...but, shoot! I almost missed work that day. Fortunately, I didn't have any heavy jobs that night, just some small table pieces, but I was weary. I kept leaning my head against the tall table clamps to rest. Thank God for Smart Water™, that and juice were the only things I could ingest. Yup, and LOTS of bathroom breaks. In fact, I think I shat out my appendix.

The next day I was fine, well close enough to fine. Although, I think my small intestine is completely inside out.

[Lord Jim]

Wow Strop, that article is sure jam packed with touchy-feely greenie buzzwords....

What the hell is a "carbon building enterprise"?

[Gob]

FUCTIFINO Jim, I just buy me eggs off 'em!

[The Hen]

What the hell is a "carbon building enterprise"?

An over-use of buzz.

The eggs are good though.

[Scooter]

Uh-oooooooooooooh, I was wondering why I felt so bad Thursday. See, I sometimes get a coulpa hard-boiled eggs from the Quik-E-Mart at break.

If they were hard boiled, they were cooked well enough to kill any salmonella that might have been in them when raw.

How they were handled after cooking and whether that might have exposed you to something else is another question.

[The Hen]

Agreed. It is from uncooked eggs that you pick up salmonella. Typically in mousses, eg Salmon.

[loCAtek]

Other than that, I can't think of anything else that might have given me the food poisoning.
I don't buy any other type of chicken products, as I prefer to fix fish at home.

[Lord Jim]

Well, personally I'd prefer that my eggs not engage in a "carbon building exercise"...

I don't eat eggs all that often, but when I do I prefer them either in a light fluffy omelet, or sunny side up with a nice rasher of bacon on the side; with a lightly buttered English Muffin ....

No "carbon building exercises" need apply....

[The Hen]

I guess by pooping the amount they do, you would HAVE to say that was a "carbon building exercise", The farmer has to get rid of all that shit. Maybe this one doesn't bother?

All I know is the eggs are almost as good as the ones I got from my four girls.