Events | 2010.08.19
Total egg recall | Open thread
A salmonella outbreak in California has led to the withdrawal from sale of 228m eggs. How safe are the eggs in your cooler?
Several hundred cases of salmonella poisoning have been reported by health authorities in California, leading to one of the US\'s largest producers of eggs, Wright County Egg, based in Iowa, issuing a voluntary recall of an estimated 228m eggs .
Food scares, health warnings and recalls of products are relatively common – in recent years, there have been major incidents involving tomatoes , ground beef , even pet food . Salmonella contamination of eggs is not unusual at low levels , but it is a potentially fatal illness in humans and a large outbreak naturally gives rise to public anxiety – in the UK, in 1988, a government minister was forced to resign over the government\'s handling of concern about salmonella in eggs.
Will you be avoiding eggs at all? Do you think buying organic eggs or farmers\' market eggs is safer than battery-farmed eggs? And what do you think of the media coverage of such events: are food scares too scary?
For more information, please visit
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/[...]/aug/19/egg-recall-food-safety
