FDA escalates egg recall to highest risk level amid multistate salmonella outbreak

Across the aisles of America's most familiar grocery stores, a quiet danger has been escalating — salmonella contamination traced to Texas egg farms and Mexican pepper fields has now prompted the FDA to issue its most serious recall classification, affecting nearly 1.6 million egg cartons and a wide range of prepared foods. Dozens of people across multiple states have already fallen ill, their illnesses connected not by proximity but by the invisible threads of a modern food supply chain. The outbreak asks an old question in a new way: how much do we truly know about the origins of what we eat