This is fascinating - I appreciate the USDA regs that were posted. I would caution folks though: laws and regulations are only as good as the enforcement of them, something we've seen over and over with the meat-packing industry. Thus if the store bought egg looks old when you crack it open, it probably is, regardless of federal regulations about the interval between lay date and pack date.
In regard to the washing question, my neighbor (a microbiologist with microbes on the brain) washes her eggs before she puts them in her fridge. Because I don't go through eggs as fast as she does (she's got hungry teens who have lots of hungry friends), I put mine in the cartons straight from the coop and then wash them as I use them.
Susan
In regard to the washing question, my neighbor (a microbiologist with microbes on the brain) washes her eggs before she puts them in her fridge. Because I don't go through eggs as fast as she does (she's got hungry teens who have lots of hungry friends), I put mine in the cartons straight from the coop and then wash them as I use them.
Susan
