14 August 2026
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has officially designated the recall of shell eggs produced by Midwest Poultry Services, L.P. as a Class I recall, the agency’s highest classification of health hazard, indicating a reasonable probability of serious adverse health consequences or death.
The elevation follows an ongoing outbreak investigation by the FDA and CDC linking environmental samples from two Texas production facilities to a multistate Salmonella Enteritidis outbreak, which has resulted in 98 confirmed illnesses and 26 hospitalizations across 17 states. The recall impacts over 19 million individual eggs (1,589,577 dozen) across several retail brands.
