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rscho02/20/20252 repliesview on HN

Industrial eggs are tightly controlled. Homemade eggs are far more susceptible to infection. AFAIK, scrubbing eggs like in the US is generally a bad idea, and results in the need to refrigerate them.


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JumpCrisscross02/20/2025

> Homemade eggs are far more susceptible to infection

Source? I buy small-farm eggs all the time. The industrial ones need sanitisation because of the literally shit condition the birds are kept in.

jagged-chisel02/20/2025

This doesn’t explain the lack of salmonella from eggs in Europe

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