Here's How To Tell If Your Eggs Are Infected With Salmonella

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Here's How To Tell If Your Eggs Are Infected With Salmonella

By Madison Dapcevich
15 May 2018, 12:17

Health experts with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have sent out a few helpful hacks for identifying potential Salmonella exposure after more than 206 million eggs were recalled nearly a month ago.

Since the April 16 recall, 35 people have been infected with the Braenderup Salmonella strain in Colorado and eight states along the East Coast of the US – 11 of whom have had to go to the hospital. Eggs containing the bacteria were sold under the brand names of Coburn Farms, Country Daybreak, Crystal Farms, Food Lion, Glenview, Great Value, Nelms, Publix, Sunshine Farms, and Sunups.

http://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/heres-how-to-tell-if-your-eggs-might-be-infected-with-salmonella/

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So what should you be on the lookout for? Each carton of eggs has three numbers on the short side of the packaging that you should familiarize yourself with. The first being the “plant number”, which looks like a P followed by numbers and shows where the eggs were produced. Next to it, there should also be a Julian date, which shows when the eggs were packaged. Lastly, take a look at the “sell-by” date, which tells you when the eggs should have been purchased by. Eggs are usually kept within three to five weeks of that date. If you think you might have contaminated eggs, look for the plant number P-1359D with a Julian date of 048A or 049A, or a plant number of P-1065 and a Julian date of 011 and 102.