The Egg Recall List

NYT ^ | 8-18-10 | Kate Phillips

[Sarah Barracuda]

Not true, my aunt made hard boiled eggs, she washed the eggs before putting them in the water, then after wards washed them again and still got sick

[Houghton M.]

Wash ‘em in the shells thoroughly in disinfectant, rinse thoroughly, crack carefully.

Look, people on the farm always knew that eggs were covered with nasties—that’s why they washed them carefully. They, unlike most modern city hicks, know where eggs exit the hen, as someone upthread pointed out.

The mammoth egg producers (who cage the chickens up to the point that some of them go mad and pick all their feathers off) have to issue this mammoth recall because of liability issues. If everyone handled their eggs properly, there’d be little risk. But all it takes is one person to get sick and it’s lawsuit heaven.

So they issue a huge recall and the news media—city slickers every dam!n one of ‘em—get to do passionate stories about how we’re all gonna die, if not yesterday, then tomorrow, from this.

[Houghton M.]

If she boiled them hard then she got sick from something else.

[politicket]

If the hens in my barn give me salmonella poisoning then I’m heading out there with a hatchet the next time.

[vetvetdoug]

Just ask any Viking Kitty how they contracted Salmonella. Any kitty that goes around catching songbirds and putting them in their mouth knows that Songbird Fever in cats is due to Salmonella. The smart Viking kitties wash and cook their birds and eggs thoroughly before eating them.

On the farm we used to wash our yard eggs in a dilute bleach solution after we removed any dirt and feces stuck to the shell. When I inspected eggs for the USAF if we encountered any eggs with feces stuck to the shell, it was a Class I or Grade I defect and if we found just three of them in a case was cause to reject the shipment. Doo doo on the eggshell was a real no no....