salmonella risks?

[bigspringshatchery]

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80 a year? Wow. It's 9 in Alabama. I just called last week setting up a date to get my flock tested.

 

[tribalchick]

I did some reading after the news press and found that:

* all documented cases were due to improper handing.
* eggs have built in barriers and the chances of samonilla surviving in an egg are 1 in 20,000, or .005%, or once every 84 years.

Remember, what you read or see on T.V. is usually not the whole story. If it is not sensational, it will not sell papers. Lots of hyp and scares to create the desire for more government regulation and involvement; Big brother wants a hug and to give you the pat down.

 

[theFox]

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You mean YACOFAR (yet another case of fire, aim, ready) ?

Surely that can't be,can it?

 

[tribalchick]

You mean YACOFAR (yet another case of fire, aim, ready) ?

tee hee Shocking I know.

 

[Buster52]

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I'm pretty sure you mean improper handling of infected eggs. Or are you trying to say it wasn't the egg's fault?

I'm doing a lot of reading up on this stuff since this came out, but keep seeing this thing about improperly cooked eggs. A runny yolk is discouraged and is considered improper cooking. That seems to include eggs "over easy". Most of the people I know like their eggs that way.

So, am I reading it wrong?

 

[tribalchick]

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I'm pretty sure you mean improper handling of infected eggs. Or are you trying to say it wasn't the egg's fault?

I'm doing a lot of reading up on this stuff since this came out, but keep seeing this thing about improperly cooked eggs. A runny yolk is discouraged and is considered improper cooking. That seems to include eggs "over easy". Most of the people I know like their eggs that way.

So, am I reading it wrong?

LOL yes, an infected egg (though it would be the chicken's fault, yes? )

And I am one of those people that likes to eat an egg with a runny yolk... or was. Hardboiled is my new fav.

You are reading this correctly (or it is the way I read it anyway). The Yahoo news article said that aside from the eggs natural barriers, like the shell, the government requires this porous shell to be carefully washed and sprayed with a special detergent and then sanitized. So if the shell is porous then the special detergent can also enter the egg. Mmm, I feel safer already! Eggs have built in barriers, such as the membrane, the egg white, and an enzyme known as lysozyme. It is highly unlikely that bacteria can survive long enough to even reach the yolk - thus the .005% odds.

BP has been replaced by hens. *shivers*

 

[Buster52]

Okay, thanks.

 

[fourgotten]

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I can understand their irritation... sometimes nothing will do but a soft-boiled egg.

On the OTHER hand, many of those same people were probably unwilling to take responsibility for themselves should they wind up with a problem resulting from their choice to eat foods that haven't been cooked to "proper" temps. I don't blame a kitchen for refusing to serve higher-risk foods. If this were a society based on personal responsibility and not litigation, things would be different. Sadly, people are always looking for a scapegoat.

 

[Mac in Wisco]

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Once every 84 years?


U.S. egg production: 75 billion eggs per year

Shell eggs to retail and food service: 70%

With the odds you have posted, the numbers show there is a possibility of 219,000 contaminated eggs being shipped every week in the U.S.

 

[theFox]

The real problem isn't the "contaminated" eggs it is how they are handled.

Raw, or poorly cooked animal products is a recipe for problems and the problem gets even worse at every single location the products goes through, with likely the worst one being where the product is actually eaten.

There are over 145,000 reported cases of salmonella poisoning suspected of being caused by eggs in the US each year.

You only need to pay attention to the warnings about cooking a bird with stuffing in it at Thanksgiving time to get a picture of all of the possible cases of the Turkey trots and "stomach" flu that can and frequently does show up in the ensuing 72 hours.

Of course our all seeing and magnanimous government has a solution for this and it is to require the eggs to be pasteurized.