Even in the US, eggs have been salmonella free for decades now. There is literally no reason for North America to wash eggs anymore, other than "this is how we

Even in the US, eggs have been salmonella free for decades now. There is literally no reason for North America to wash eggs anymore, other than "this is how we do it, it would cost us more to change than to just keep doing this". Which ironically of course keeps people thinking that it's still in place because it's necessary when it really, really isn't. It hasn't actually been necessary for longer than most of us have been alive now. Heck: lettuce has been a vector for salmonella several orders of magnitude greater than eggs =)