so how do the eggs come to contain salmonella anyway?

good question, and I have no answer

There's three ways. 1. It can infect the chickens ovaries and enter the egg before the shell is hardened. 2. It can get on the shells when the chickens sit on them and the shells just aren't cleaned well enough. 3. Once in a while the Easter Bunny gets P.O.'d about having to work on Sunday and does a bit of tampering.

if the easter bunny isnt the culprit then why did four months and 380 million eggs go by without being regularly screened?

Yeah, what he said....through the ovaries.....saw it on the news today....TOTALLY wild!!! Couldn't believe the amount of eggs that went bad....HUGE amount....I guess HUGE isn't the word for it....

Actually, the recalled eggs are no older than 3 months old. I have a feeling that they're playing it safe and recalling back further than they're aware of. The FDA is pretty specific about large producers screening eggs, so I doubt that was the issue. The recall was done by "health officials" (read government). Have they ever done anything in a timely manner? Chances are that considering the losses involved the producer likely wasn't in a rush to make a recall that large in the first place (let alone the bad press).

380+ million aren't actually bad. They're recalling that many just because there's a possibility that there MAY be a chance that an egg(s) could be infected within certain batches and they're covering their ***.

You guys aren't stopping me from making my omelete today.

youd be surprised just how much at risk you are everyday from food born pathogens...

Omelete was good, not dead yet!!!

I loooovvvve eggs!!


Double yolkers rule!!!

I'm a guy ... I was born without eggs ...

really?


Are these battery hens?...are they barned hens?....has anyone looked at the process involved in you picking up a carton of eggs from the supermarket?


Sheesh!...I know it's not possible for a lot of people, but I am so grateful I live here, with the space for a chicken pen, and our own free range, fresh organic eggs everyday.

How?

The hens that laid the egss....must have ate some raw chicken.

"A few bad eggs"

some weird stuff

I found out recently that eggs can give me heartburn.... wtf?

its what happens when man genetically manufactures stufff

An egg recall?
Good.
Now I can get this off my face.

"An egg recall?!!!"

"Those things are not going back inside me!"