Wash my eggs?

[BigBlueHen53]

I'd double check with your state's dept of agriculture to make sure there's no rules for selling eggs. In some states there's very little regulation, especially for home grown foodstuffs, in others, you may need permits or certain signage even for a small operation.

Thank you for alerting me to this. It's only $5 a year for a license, but I don't need one if I sell from my house. Once you're licensed the licensing agency inspects you once a year to make sure your refrigerator is cold enough. I don't think my three dozen eggs a week are worth all that. My sweet little ladies can find me.

 

[50-45-1]

. In Europe eggs are not washed and they are not refrigerated

Thats because in Europe all hens are vacinated against salmonella, not so in the US.
How do you think eggs would sell in the grocery store if labled WASHED and UNWASHED?
i wash my eggs immediatly after bringing them in the house.
Never gotten a bad egg or sick because i did so.

 

[Kt95]

I'd double check with your state's dept of agriculture to make sure there's no rules for selling eggs. In some states there's very little regulation, especially for home grown foodstuffs, in others, you may need permits or certain signage even for a small operation.

Good point! Thank you!!

 

[Peppercorngal]

I sell eggs in California and do have an "Egg Handler's License" allowing me to do so. We are required to refrigerate the eggs, but are NOT required to wash them. I don't wash them. I do everything I can to keep the mud from getting on the eggs so they are clean already (lots of straw in coop, run and boxes are changed frequently). If an egg is too dirty I just take it for myself. Washing lessens the "life" of time the egg can be stored I think. So I don't.