Egg Company of Hilmar, California, issued a recall of 1,700,000 dozen brown cage free and brown certified organic eggs potentially contaminated with Salmonella enteritidis distributed to

More than 70 people across seven states have been sickened due to a salmonella outbreak linked to eggs recalled by a California-based egg distributor, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Seventy-nine people across seven states have gotten sick with the same outbreak strain of Salmonella that has been linked to the eggs, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Twenty-one people have been hospitalized with no deaths reported.