Poo-poo Make Prant Grow

[AlexO]

Parrot
I agree with you, my main point was that someone was denigrating US food production practices as opposed to the dictatorship EU's. Washing chicken with ammonia??

[stattointhailand]

Alex, my point was not anti American, Anti Brit anti European or anyone else. It was just trying to say that we ALL add so many chemicals at every stage of food production now that the naturally produced enzymes in the product that protected our Ancestors have all been overpowered by chemicals that cause us even more problems than they solve. You only have to think back at how meat/veg/etc etc use to taste in our youth and compare it with what we are fed today to know that some serious changes have been made to our food. Even home grown produce tastes nothing like it did because scientists have chemically altered the seeds/bulbs before we get to plant them

[sometimewoodworker]

So the EU dictate that it is mandatory that people handle eggs that have come out of a chickens backside and been lying in poo for some hours before being packaged. No health warnings about the hazards allowed at all. When was the last time you seen eggs in Tesco covered in poo. Same as washing meat in ammonia.

You are thinking about the US when you talk about people handling eggs that have come out of a chickens backside and been lying in poo for some hours before being packaged because the US has no poultry welfare standards and due to the very low margins the chickens are kept in such a confined area the US chickens, and the eggs, are forced into very unhygienic conditions.

EU believes the food industry should be continually improving hygiene standards in all steps of processing. This is why acid washed meat (US pigs) chlorine washed chickens and requirements to wash and chemical sanitised eggs (to compensate for the unhygienic breeding and housing) isn't permitted in the EU

So because the chickens are not walking around on their own poo eggs have no need to be washed. Another factor is that if the grade A eggs are dirty people will not buy them so good hygiene is in the farmers interest.

Birds do not foul thier nests given enough space and correct treatment.

[sometimewoodworker]

What are the risks associated with not washing eggs?
Salmonella can survive for a long time in dried faeces on the outside of eggs.

The US requirements to wash eggs to stop contamination is working very well !!!

Last Updated Apr 16, 2018 9:50 AM EDT

RALEIGH, N.C. -- More than 200 million eggs distributed to restaurants and grocery stores in nine states have been recalled because of bacterial contamination. A notice posted on the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) website Friday said the eggs shipped from a North Carolina farm may be tainted with salmonella. The bacteria can cause nausea, diarrhea and, in rare cases, death. Twenty-two illnesses have been reported.

The UK had the same problems in the 1980’s. It doesn't have them now.

UK

Advice since the late 1980s has been that vulnerable groups should not consume raw or lightly cooked eggs – or dishes containing them, such as home-made mousses and mayonnaise.

This was because the eggs could contain salmonella bacteria, which can cause food poisoning leading, in the most serious cases of infection, to death.

“The measures they’ve taken, from vaccination of hens through to improving hygiene on farms and better transportation, have dramatically reduced salmonella levels in UK hens.”