The Environmental Health Division of Public Health has been informed of the salmonella outbreak in the United States wherein almost 400 million eggs have been recalled as part of the investigation. Reports said that hundreds of people got sick from eating eggs contaminated with salmonella.
“Our Chief, Eden Uchel, has been informed by a Public Health officer in Saipan regarding the situation in the US, so she instructed our inspectors to go around all major stores in Palau to check if there was any presence of salmonella in the eggs,” Sikyang said. “But none of the stores were found to have eggs from any of the companies which egg products have been recalled in the US.”
Sikyang said their inspectors started going around to every major store in Palau last week, but they didn’t find any contaminated eggs being sold in Palau.
According to the Washington Post report on August 19, the eggs that were being recalled in the US were packaged under the brand names Lucerne, Albertson, Mountain Dairy, Ralph’s Boomsma’s, Sunshine, Hillandale, Trafficanda, Farm Fresh, Shoreland, Sun Valley, Lund, Dutch Farms, Kemps, Glenview, Bayview, James Farms, Nulaid and Pacific Coast.
“Palau is not importing eggs from any of those companies,” Sikyang assured the public. “The eggs in Palau are good and safe from salmonella poisoning.”
Sikyang said they even talked to the owners of the stores, “And they confirmed that they do not do business with any of the said companies,” he said.
The most common symptoms of salmonella, according to Sikyang, are high fever, abdominal pain and diarrhea. “It could get worse and may cause death,” he added.
The Enviromental Health Division will continue monitoring the eggs in Palau, Sikyang added.
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