--- title: "Check Your Fridge: 19 Million Eggs Sold at Kroger and Other Stores Were Just Recalled" date: 2026-07-23T14:46:00-07:00 author: Julie Dueck canonical_url: "https://marlerclark.com/news_events/check-your-fridge-19-million-eggs-sold-at-kroger-and-other-stores-were-just-recalled" section: News --- [All News](/news_events) / [Publications](https://marlerclark.com/news_events/publications) / # Check Your Fridge: 19 Million Eggs Sold at Kroger and Other Stores Were Just Recalled **Inc. Magazine | [ Lucia Auerbach ](https://www.inc.com/author/lucia-auerbach)| July 23, 2026 **Midwest Poultry Services has issued a massive recall across six states due to possible Salmonella contamination. Here are the brand names, plant codes, and safety steps you need to know.** **[ ](https://www.inc.com/about/index.html#voice)**[LISTEN TO THIS ARTICLE HERE](https://www.inc.com/about/index.html#voice) Over 19 million eggs were just recalled. Are any in your fridge? Eggs sold under several different brands are being recalled across multiple states. Midwest Poultry Services is voluntarily recalling 1,589,577 dozen white shell and brown cage-free shell eggs due to possible salmonella contamination. The eggs were sold under several different brand names, including: Kroger, Simple Truth, Brookshire’s, Country Morning, and Sunups. They were distributed from farms in Texas between June 6 and July 3, 2026. The carry sell-by or best-by dates range from July 20 through August 17. As of July 22, no illnesses related to contaminated products have been reported, according to the Food and Drug Administration’s [announcement](https://www.fda.gov/safety/recalls-market-withdrawals-safety-alerts/midwest-poultry-services-lp-recalls-shell-eggs-due-possible-salmonella-enteritidis-contamination#recall-photos). The eggs were also shipped to food-service and retail customers in Texas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana. Affected products were available at Kroger stores in Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Arkansas, New Mexico, and Mississippi. The announcement said that the eggs were also sold at smaller retailers. Consumers are told to not rely on brand name alone to determine whether their eggs are affected. Recalled cartons have an identifying code on either the left or right side of the package. The plant codes impacted are P-1950 or 0840962 as well as Julian Date between 157 and 184. ![](https://assets.adventivecdn.com/ui/images/blank.png)## How to protect yourself For those who are in possession of the contaminated eggs, Darin Detwiler, LP.D., associate professor of the College of Professional Studies at Northeastern University, recommends first returning and discarding the eggs. Then, he told *Inc*., “the single most important step is to thoroughly clean and sanitize every surface the eggs may have touched.” This includes the refrigerator shelves, countertops, shopping bags, and your hands. “The concern does not end when the eggs leave the refrigerator because leakage or handling can transfer Salmonella to other foods and surfaces through cross-contamination,” Detwiler said. “Eliminating that secondary risk is just as important as removing the recalled product itself.” While thoroughly cooking does destroy Salmonella, the risk exists before the eggs have even been cracked. “Firm white, firm yolk, 160°F — yes, it’s dead. That answer is also close to useless in a real kitchen,” Bill Marler, Esq., managing partner of Marler Clark, a food safety law firm, told Inc. “Over easy. Soft scrambled. Caesar dressing, hollandaise, tiramisu, the spoon of cookie dough off the beater. And a perfectly cooked egg won’t save you from the shell you cracked and the counter you set it on,” Marler said. ## The issue of tracing A recall of this size is difficult to trace because the recall represents over 19 million individual eggs spread across a large supply chain. “By the time contamination is identified, those eggs may already be sitting in millions of refrigerators,” Detwiler said. The issue becomes more difficult when consumers have already discarded the identifying carton, combine eggs from multiple cartons, or repackage products. “At this scale, successful containment depends on coordination among producers, distributors, retailers, regulators, laboratories, and consumers,” he added. ## The rise in food safety scares Eggs have been at the center of several food safety concerns in recent years. Last year, a Salmonella outbreak linked to recalled eggs sickened 134 people across 100 states, resulting in 38 hospitalizations and even one death, according to the [FDA](https://www.fda.gov/food/outbreaks-foodborne-illness/outbreak-investigation-salmonella-eggs-june-2025). Another recall of this size points to both a breakdown at the farm level and evidence that routine safety testing systems are indeed working as intended. “Credit where it’s due: a swab found this, not a pile of sick children,” Marler told Inc. “In 2010, Wright County Egg pulled half a billion eggs — but only after roughly 1,900 people were already culture-confirmed. Illnesses led that recall. Here, monitoring did.” He added that testing is a backstop, not a plan. 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