Washing eggs is correlated with a material reduction in salmonella cases in countries that adopt it, there is science behind the practice. It is why the US adop

Washing eggs is correlated with a material reduction in salmonella cases in countries that adopt it, there is science behind the practice. It is why the US adopted this practice several decades ago, and it produced the desired effect. US food regulations require stronger mitigations against bacterial contamination than most countries pretty consistently. If you look at the long list of foods prohibited for import into the US from Europe, it is almost entirely due to insufficient mitigation of bacterial contamination. This largely revolves around traditional food processing techniques that don’t pass modern food safety standards but which get an exception in Europe for being “traditional”.