Country Eggs LLC gave 95 Americans one nasty surprise that will make you check your fridge

Americans trust that the food they buy at the grocery store won’t land them in the hospital.

That basic expectation just got shattered in a big way.

And Country Eggs LLC gave 95 Americans one nasty surprise that will make you check your fridge.

California egg company’s contamination crisis spreads across 14 states

The Centers for Disease Control just dropped some news that should make every American wonder what the hell is going on with our food supply.

Country Eggs LLC – a California-based company that markets itself as providing “sunshine yolk” eggs – contaminated their products with Salmonella Enteritidis and sickened 95 people across 14 states.¹

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Eighteen Americans ended up hospitalized because they trusted this company to provide safe eggs.

The eggs were distributed to grocery stores and food service distributors in California and Nevada from June 16 through July 9, with sell-by dates ranging from July 1 through September 16.²

But here’s where this gets really ugly – according to the CDC, “The true number of sick people in this outbreak was likely much higher than the number reported.”

The agency explains that “many people recover without medical care and are not tested for salmonella,” so the government has no idea how many families actually suffered through this company’s negligence.

The numbers tell the real story about corporate responsibility

Look, the CDC found that 92% of people interviewed who got sick reported eating eggs – a much higher percentage than you’d see in a typical survey.³

That tells you something went catastrophically wrong with this company’s operation.

California got hit the hardest with 73 cases, but the contamination spread to Florida, Georgia, Arizona, Hawaii, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Washington.

Country Eggs LLC tried to sound responsible in their recall announcement, saying “Ensuring the safety and quality of the eggs we supply to our customers is our responsibility and our focus each day.”⁴

That’s rich coming from a company that just poisoned nearly 100 Americans.

They claim “Production of the product has been suspended while FDA and the company continue their investigation as to the source of the problem.”

Here’s what they’re not telling you – they admitted “The potential for contamination was noted after being brought to our attention by the FDA and other authorities that our product may contain the presence of Salmonella.”

So the government had to tell this company their eggs were making people sick.

Here’s what this really means for American families

You want to know what should make you furious about this whole mess?

Earlier this summer, “the CDC quietly scaled back a federal-state partnership that monitors for foodborne illnesses, reducing surveillance to just two pathogens: a severe type of E. coli and salmonella.”⁵

So we’re getting less government oversight at the exact moment companies like Country Eggs LLC are contaminating the food supply.

The contaminated eggs were sold under multiple brand names – Nagatoshi Produce, Misuho, and Nijiya Markets – which means consumers had no way to know they were all coming from the same problematic facility.

These weren’t just retail cartons either.

Country Eggs LLC was shipping contaminated eggs to restaurants as “large brown sunshine yolks” and “omega-3 golden yolks” for food service.

That means families eating out had no control over whether they were consuming contaminated eggs.

For folks who work for a living and just want to feed their families safely, this represents everything wrong with how our food system operates.

You’ve got a California company cutting corners on safety, government agencies that have to be told there’s a problem, and American consumers left holding the bag when things go wrong.

The real kicker? Country Eggs LLC’s eggs carried the code “CA-7695” on every carton, but most consumers don’t know to look for production codes when they’re grocery shopping.

The CDC warns that children under 5, adults over 65, and people with weakened immune systems face the most severe illness from Salmonella contamination.

So this company’s negligence specifically threatens the most vulnerable Americans – the elderly grandparents and young grandchildren our audience cares about most.

If you’ve got eggs in your fridge right now, you better check those cartons for the recalled brand names and that CA-7695 code.

The government says you can return them for a refund or throw them out, but they should be telling you how to make sure this doesn’t happen again.

Instead, we get the usual bureaucratic response about “continuing their investigation” while American families wonder what other contaminated food is sitting on store shelves right now.

¹ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, “Salmonella Outbreak Linked to Eggs,” CDC, August 28, 2025.

² U.S. Food and Drug Administration, “Country Eggs LLC Recalls Eggs Due to Salmonella Contamination,” FDA, August 28, 2025.

³ Ibid.

⁴ Country Eggs LLC, “Recall Statement,” FDA Alert, August 28, 2025.

⁵ Sara G. Miller, “Salmonella outbreak linked to eggs sickens 95 people, CDC says,” NBC News, August 28, 2025.