Fayetteville family says recalled eggs made them sick

Since Thursday, Teresa Hargrove said, she, her two daughters and their five children have experienced nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and abdominal pain and have sought medical help.

"Something was wrong with our bodies. This wasn't normal," Hargrove said. "It just started happening, everybody getting sick."

"I wasn't thinking nothing of it, but I was like, well, everybody's getting sick," said her daughter, Chrystal McMullen. "They was running fevers, and I was giving them medicine, not knowing what was wrong. But [I was] giving them the wrong medicine because what they had I couldn't cure."

Consumer recall information

Hargrove had purchased a carton of 60 eggs earlier this month from the Walmart near Murchison Road and Pamelee Drive in Fayetteville.

"Once I seen the news, I said, 'Oh, let me check the eggs,' and once I checked the eggs, I seen it said P-1065," Constance McMullen said, noting the plant number of the recalled eggs was printed on the carton in the family's refrigerator.

"She was like, 'You know them eggs we been eating? Them the eggs they recalled,'" Hargrove said. "So then we started to put two and two together."

The Walmart store manager in Fayetteville declined to comment Tuesday, but a company spokeswoman issued a statement that said Walmart has quickly responded to the recall.

"Walmart is committed to providing our customers with safe, high-quality products at our everyday low prices. As soon as we were notified by Rose Acre Farms of the recall, we immediately began the process of alerting our stores to remove the affected product from our store shelves and inventory. We have also instituted a register block to prevent the sale of these specific items," Molly Blakeman said in the statement.

Test results that would confirm salmonella exposure won't be back for a week or so, but Hargrove is convinced her family was sickened by the eggs. She said she plans to return the eggs to Walmart – but not before talking with an attorney.