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- From: jbaron@higgs.ssc.gov (Jeff Baron)
- Subject: Re: Raw Eggs, Cooked Eggs, etc.
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.172246.8504@sunova.ssc.gov>
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- Organization: Superconducting Super Collider Lab
- References: <1993Jan20.122821.15986@doug.cae.wisc.edu> <BETSYS.93Jan22170005@ra.cs.umb.edu>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 17:22:46 GMT
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- In article <BETSYS.93Jan22170005@ra.cs.umb.edu>,
- betsys@cs.umb.edu (Elizabeth Schwartz) writes:
-
- - In this country, there is a high danger of salmonella poisoning from
- - raw eggs. (also from raw chicken; be careful not to cut salad veggies
- - on any surface which has been used for raw meats)
- - Salmonella is destroyed by cooking and is quite nasty, so don't even
- - think about raw eggs.
-
- Well, I'd like to see some proof about raw eggs being a vector
- for Salmonella. Certainly, chicken is, as an article in (I believe)
- _The_Atlantic_ a few years ago pointed to studies that indicated
- that over *half* of all of the chicken sold in this country was
- infected. (The article also described the conditions that caused
- this infection rate; not a pretty sight at all.)
-
- But eggs? Most of the infections that were passed from one chicken
- to another were passed after the animals had been killed, but before
- they were packaged, such as through tools and knives used on many
- dead chickens that had been lying around for a while like breeding
- grounds. It's hard to imagine how infected, dead carcasses and
- infected knives might affect laying hens.
-
- I'd just like to see a study.
-
- --
- Jeff Baron
- jbaron@gauss.ssc.gov
-