Do you wash or sanitize your eggs before selling?

[dacjohns]

"new york" eggs agriculture sell



The key was agriculture, in most states the Department of Agriculture covers things like selling eggs.

 

[pinkchick]

I do not wash my eggs either unless they are super dirty, then I just use a paper towel.

I haven't sold any yet but do give them to family. They don't bother to wash them either.

In Washington State you can sell them on farm without doing anything, but if you sell off farm you have to be inspected and apply for an egg handlers card.

 

[gfoster]

I find it interesting that people don't wash their eggs, yet they toss them if they have poop on them. Just because it may not have visible poop doesn't mean it didn't come out of the same place, ya know...

I wash *all* my eggs. That's the way my uncle taught me to do it 20 years or so ago, and that's the way I do it today. They get gathered a couple times a day, washed, and then put in the fridge. If they have some poop or mud or straw or whatever stuck to them, well, that washes off. I use warm water and a little bit of non-perfumed dishwasher detergent.

And while you can sell straight off the farm without a permit in a lot of places, I *believe* (although I've been wrong plenty of times in the past) that *any* shell egg sales in california require you to register as an egg handler, even if you're selling straight off the farm. I don't think there's any wiggle room here.

We only have 4 hens and I currently don't have enough to sell, but when I lived in kansas and had lots of chickens (and ducks and goats and rabbits and...) we had about 3 or 4 dozen chickens at any one time and we sold eggs straight off the farm (or traded them to the neighbors) and we didn't register anything. We also traded or sold goat's milk to the neighbors as well. We just had a little sign out by the mailbox and all the neighbors of course knew as well, so they'd direct anyone looking our way. Of course, we could've been breaking the law for all I know, nobody cared

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