Wallingford, CT - August 24, 2010 - Are the eggs you buy covered by the 2010 Food and Drug Administration (FDA) egg recall?
Look on the end of the carton or on the case label. You’ll see a date and some codes. For example, the codes might look like this: P-1720 223.
The plant number begins with the letter
P and then the number. The date follows the plant number. The date is in Julian format, which means it’s a number corresponding to the order of the day in the year. For example, the Julian date for December 31 is
365.
The recall has been expanded since it was first announced. As of August 20, 2010, the FDA says:
“Shell eggs under the August 13, 2010 recall are packaged under the brand names:
Lucerne,
Albertson,
Mountain Dairy,
Ralph’s,
Boomsma’s,
Sunshine,
Hillandale,
Trafficanda,
Farm Fresh,
Shoreland,
Lund,
Dutch Farms and
Kemps. Shell eggs are packed in 6-egg cartons, 12-egg cartons, 18-egg cartons, and loose eggs with Julian dates ranging from 136 to 225 and plant numbers
1026,
1413 and
1946.
“Recalled shell eggs affected by the expanded recall are packaged under the brand names:
Albertsons,
Farm Fresh,
James Farms,
Glenview,
Mountain Dairy,
Ralphs,
Boomsma,
Lund,
Kemps and
Pacific Coast. Eggs are packed in varying sizes of cartons (6-egg, 12-egg, and18-egg cartons, and loose eggs for institutional use and repackaging) with Julian dates ranging from
136 to
229 and plant numbers
1720 and
1942.”
For the latest from FDA on the egg recall, visit
www.fda.gov.
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