A customer browses eggs on the market at a Costco Wholesale Corp. store in San Francisco, California.
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Federal food regulators raised their alarm for recalled eggs sold from Costco stores over possible salmonella exposure, reclassifying the targeted product to its highest risk level.
The FDA announced Nov. 27 that Latest York-Handsome Brook Farms had voluntarily recalled about 10,800 retail units of 24-count organic, pasture-raised eggs sold under Costco’s Kirkland Signature brand.
In an updated notice Friday, the FDA reclassified the recall to Class I, which it calls a “reasonable probability that using, or exposure to, a violative product will cause serious adversarial health consequences or death.”
Recall classification is routinely determined by a committee of FDA scientists who take multiple aspects into consideration, including whether a product has caused any diseases or injuries, who could also be at the best risk, comparable to children or pets, and the likelihood that more people might be harmed.
When the recall was announced last month, no illnesses had yet been reported. The FDA didn’t respond Thursday to questions on any possible illnesses linked to the recalled eggs.
The “Organic Pasture-Raised” egg cartons have a universal product code (UPC) of 9661910680 and a use-by date of Jan. 5, 2025.
The Latest York-based company Handsome Brook Farms didn’t immediately reply to a request for comment.
In keeping with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, it may well take several weeks for an illness to be identified as a part of a food outbreak. Symptoms of salmonella include diarrhea, fever and stomach cramps. Most individuals recuperate inside per week, although the infection will be serious in young children, adults 65 and older or individuals with weakened immune systems.
The targeted egg cartons were sold in 25 Costco stores in Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee starting Nov. 22.
Customers with the eggs should return them to Costco for full refunds, the FDA said.
The CDC estimates that salmonella causes 1.35 million infections in america every year. Contaminated food is the source of a lot of the illnesses.
