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July 24 (Reuters) - The U.S. FDA said on Wednesday that Midwest Poultry Services is recalling nearly 1.6 million dozen eggs produced in Texas due to potential Salmonella contamination.
The recalled white and brown cage-free eggs were sold at Kroger stores in Texas and Louisiana and Brookshire Grocery stores in certain states including Oklahoma, Arkansas and Mississippi, the FDA said.
Kroger did not immediately respond to Reuters' requests for comment outside regular business hours.
Brookshire Grocery Co told Reuters it had begun reviewing its inventory and removing potentially affected products upon receiving the notice.
"All eggs currently available for purchase in our stores were sourced from a different production facility," the company said in an emailed statement.
No illnesses reported were linked to the Midwest Poultry Services eggs as of the announcement, the FDA added.
Midwest Poultry Services has halted distributing eggs produced on its Texas farms, the health regulator added.
After identifying a potential egg safety issue, Midwest Poultry redirected eggs to a processing facility for pasteurization and launched an internal investigation and testing to determine the source of the potential Salmonella enteritidis contamination.
Salmonella enteritidis is a bacterium that can live on either the outside or inside of eggs and cause foodborne illness. Symptoms include cramps, diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, chills, fever and headaches within 12 to 72 hours after eating.
(Reporting by Gnaneshwar Rajan in Bengaluru; Additional reporting by Chandni Shah and Kamal Choudhury in Bengaluru; Editing by Mrigank Dhaniwala and Rashmi Aich)
