The Centers for Disease Control (“CDC”) has issued a salmonella outbreak alert for brown eggs sold in nine states by California-based August Egg Company after 79 people across seven states were sickened after consuming the impacted eggs,

The outbreak has sickened 79 people across seven states, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. At least 21 people have been hospitalized, and no deaths have been reported.

A major salmonella outbreak involving 1.7 million eggs from the August Egg company has infected 79 people in seven states.