About 380 million eggs have been recalled following a national salmonella outbreak. Following this, the question now arises that how safe is it to keep the microbe as it is the most common bacterial source of food-borne illness, out of the henhouse.

Spokeswoman Hinda Mitchell says that the egg recall has been in increasing numbers that went up from 228 million to the present number. Wright County Egg, a Galt, Iowa, is the egg manufacturer and 2.3 million dozen eggs are produced by the company’s five facilities a week.

The United Egg Producer informed that the U. S. in 2009 produced nearly 6.5 billion dozen eggs.

There have been hundreds of cases starting in May of people feeling unwell due to the outbreak, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

CDC epidemiologist Christopher Braden said that there have been no reported deaths so far but cases of illnesses are many.

Mindy Brashears, a professor of food safety at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, said, "We're speculating they could have had a highly infected flock or the product could have been mishandled, but we don't really know."