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FRANKFORT, Ky. — The Kentucky Department of Agriculture urges consumers to be on the lookout for potentially contaminated eggs from an Ohio packing plant that may be on retailers’ shelves or in homes in the eastern half of the state.
The eggs are in cartons marked with the packing plant code P1185, a pack date code of 031 and an expiration date of March 1, officials in the Department’s Office of Consumer and Environmental Protection said Friday. The codes and expiration date are stamped on one end of each carton. Consumers who have eggs in cartons with those codes and the March 1 expiration date are advised to either destroy the eggs or return them to the retailer.
The eggs were distributed under several different labels. Between 60 and 300 cases of eggs, containing 15 dozen eggs in each case, were shipped to stores between Ashland and Louisville and from the Ohio River to the Tennessee border. KDA inspectors caught about half of the suspected contaminated eggs and are tracking the rest. Department officials believe many of the cartons already have been sold to consumers.
Department egg inspectors discovered the potentially contaminated eggs while performing routine egg inspections. Some eggs were found contaminated with mold and blood spots, KDA officials said.
The Department has asked the packing plant to impose a voluntary recall.
Consumers who have information on a location where potentially contaminated eggs were purchased are encouraged to call the Kentucky Department of Agriculture at (502) 573-0282 and ask for the egg program administrator.
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