Recalled Texas Eggs Are Linked to 98 Salmonella Illnesses in 17 States: Code P-1950 or 0840962 Is One of Three Checks on Your Carton

About 19 million eggs — sold under five names most shoppers recognize, including Kroger, Simple Truth and Brookshire’s — were pulled from the market on July 22, 2026, after the company that packed them found Salmonella on its own Texas farms.

Federal investigators have since tied those eggs to a multistate outbreak, though FDA (Food and Drug Administration) says this producer does not account for all the illnesses in it. As of the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) and FDA update of July 24, 2026, the most recent official figures available, 98 people in 17 states had been infected with the outbreak strain and 26 were hospitalized. No deaths have been reported.

The recall matters right now for one practical reason: the eggs carry sell-by or best-by dates running through August 17, 2026, so a recalled carton bought weeks ago can still be sitting in a refrigerator.

Key facts

What was recalled: about 19 million eggs, pulled from the market on July 22, 2026 by Midwest Poultry Services, L.P., the company that produced and packed them on its Texas farms.
Brand names on the carton: Country Morning, Cal-Maine Sunups, Brookshire’s, Simple Truth and Kroger — labels printed on the packaging, not companies that issued the recall.
A carton is recalled only if all three stamps match: code P-1950 or 0840962 (also written 840962); a Julian date between 157 and 184; a sell-by or best-by date between July 20 and August 17, 2026.
Outbreak, as of the CDC and FDA update of July 24, 2026: 98 people infected in 17 states, 26 hospitalized, no deaths reported.
Two different state lists: the packer shipped the eggs to Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiana, and FDA’s confirmed distribution list runs to six states; the 17 states where people got sick are a separate list.
If your carton matches: do not eat, serve or sell the eggs — throw them out or return them for a refund. Midwest Poultry Services is taking consumer questions at 574.405.9531 and at recallassistance@mpseggs.com.

How to tell if your carton is one of them

The recall was announced by Midwest Poultry Services, L.P., the company that produced and packed the eggs on its Texas farms. The brand names printed on the front are Country Morning, Cal-Maine Sunups, Brookshire’s, Simple Truth and Kroger — those are labels on the packaging, not companies that issued the recall.

Brand alone does not tell you whether a carton is affected. The codes do. Look at the left or right side of the carton, where the packing information is stamped in date-coding ink, and check for all three of the stamps below. A carton is recalled only if all three match:

Code P-1950 or 0840962. Either code is a match. The second code is also written 840962 — that is the same code.
A Julian date between 157 and 184. The Julian date is the three-digit number for the day of the year the eggs were packed — 157 through 184 covers production from about June 6 to July 3, 2026.
A sell-by or best-by date between July 20 and August 17, 2026.

If you cannot read all three — the ink is smudged, part of the stamp is missing, or the numbers are too faint to make out — then you cannot clear that carton. The official instruction for eggs kept outside their original packaging, when you can no longer tell whether they are recalled, is to throw them away.

The recall covers white shell eggs and brown cage-free shell eggs in cartons of 6, 12, 18, 24, 30, 36 and 60, plus bulk packs sold to foodservice. The same instruction — do not use, do not serve, do not sell — applies to the restaurants and other foodservice businesses that received those bulk packs.

What to do with a matching carton

If your carton matches, do not eat the eggs, and do not serve or sell them.

CDC and FDA’s instruction is not to eat the recalled eggs at all.
Throw them out, or take them back to the store for a refund. If you moved the eggs into a different container and can no longer tell whether they are recalled, throw them away.
Wash and sanitize any surface, container or utensil the eggs touched with hot soapy water or run it through the dishwasher.

Midwest Poultry Services is taking consumer questions at 574.405.9531 and at recallassistance@mpseggs.com.

Where the recalled eggs were sold — and why two different state lists exist

The recalled eggs were shipped to foodservice and retail customers in three states — Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiana — while FDA’s confirmed distribution list runs to six: Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas. The smaller number is where the packer sent the eggs; the larger one is where FDA has confirmed they were distributed. Shoppers could buy them at Kroger stores in Texas and Louisiana, at Brookshire Grocery stores in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana — FDA’s recall notice puts Brookshire Grocery stores in New Mexico and Mississippi on that list too — and at smaller retail and foodservice outlets in those states.

That distribution list is a different list from the 17 states where people got sick. As of the July 24, 2026 update, illnesses have been reported in Arizona, California, Colorado, Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, Michigan, Missouri, Mississippi, North Carolina, New Mexico, Nevada, New York, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas and West Virginia. Living in one of those 17 states does not mean recalled cartons reached your grocery store — the carton codes are what settles it.

What investigators have established, and what they have not

Midwest Poultry Services collected samples at its Texas farms, some tested positive for Salmonella, and whole genome sequencing by an outside lab matched the outbreak strain, Salmonella Enteritidis. The company gave those results to FDA on July 21, 2026 and recalled the eggs the next day, saying at the time that it was not aware of any specific illnesses linked to its products. FDA’s update two days later reported the 98 illnesses and named the recalled eggs as a likely source.

One point in that update deserves more attention than it usually gets: FDA states plainly that this producer does not account for all the illnesses in the outbreak, and that investigators are still working to determine whether there are other sources. The recall closed one door. It did not close the case.

The pattern behind the investigation is straightforward. Of 44 sick people interviewed about what they ate in the week before falling ill, 40 — 91% — reported eating shell eggs. Illnesses began on dates ranging from November 21, 2025 to June 30, 2026, the last onset date known to investigators. That November date is not a typo. The recalled eggs were packed between June 6 and July 3, 2026, so they cannot be what made someone sick months earlier. What explains those earliest illnesses is not something the agencies have stated. Those affected range in age from under one year to 81, with a median age of 48.

This is a separate event from the egg-linked Salmonella outbreak that closed in November 2025, which involved a different company, different brands and different states.

The antibiotic finding, in plain terms

CDC sequenced bacteria from the samples of all 98 confirmed patients — reading the bacteria’s genes, not testing eggs on a shelf — and found the strain is predicted to be nonsusceptible to ciprofloxacin and resistant to nalidixic acid. The two words are lab terms, and for a patient they land in the same place: neither drug is expected to work against this strain the way it normally would. CDC says that means some illnesses in this outbreak may not be treatable with certain commonly recommended antibiotics.

For most people it changes nothing, because most Salmonella infections clear without antibiotics at all. It matters for the smaller number of cases severe enough to need treatment, where a doctor may have to choose a different drug.

Symptoms, and when to call a doctor

FDA says Salmonella illness usually starts 12 to 72 hours after eating contaminated food and lasts four to seven days. If you ate eggs from a matching carton and feel fine, that 12-to-72-hour window is the one to watch. CDC says to contact a healthcare provider right away for any of these:

Diarrhea with a fever above 102°F
Diarrhea lasting more than three days without improving
Bloody diarrhea
Vomiting so severe you cannot keep liquids down
Signs of dehydration such as urinating very little, a dry mouth and throat, or feeling dizzy when you stand up

What happens next

The investigation is open, and as of August 6, 2026 the July 24 figures remain the newest official numbers available. CDC has said the real number of people affected is likely higher than the confirmed 98, because many people recover without ever being tested and recent illnesses may not be reported yet.