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That's not at all what I got from the article. I read it as saying basically that reasonable people can disagree about whether eggs should be washed and refrige
by monochromatic 10y ago
That's not at all what I got from the article. I read it as saying basically that reasonable people can disagree about whether eggs should be washed and refrigerated, and there are good reasons for either position.
- nraynaud 10y agoI would agree, I'm still puzzled tho, because vaccine works but is not used for economic reasons. So we Europeans, mostly don't vaccinate and don't refrigerate (let's forget the health care and say it's the cheapest), but in the US you're paying for an entire cold shipping infrastructure anyways, which doesn't strike me as "cheap".
- tptacek 10y agoYou need a cold chain anyways for all sorts of other foods, both here and in Europe. Meanwhile, washing eggs does reduce salmonella (salmonella in American eggs is practically nonexistent), and refrigerated eggs do keep longer.
- stordoff 10y ago> So we Europeans, mostly don't vaccinate Likely varies across Europe. In the UK, 85% of eggs produced meet the Lion Mark standards, which includes mandatory Salmonella vaccination. Certainly appears effective: > [T]he Food Standards Agency [...] in 2004 [...] tested more than 28,000 UK-produced eggs and no Salmonella was found inside any of them. http://www.lioneggfarms.co.uk/information/british-lion-quality/ http://www.lioneggfarms.co.uk/information/british-lion-quali...
- Aloha 10y agoThe cold shipping infrastructure largely already exists, in this case its just one more SKU added to it.