• Dasus@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    My eggs have chickenshit on them and thats’ why they don’t need refrigeration like you do in the US.

    Also, I can eat them raw if I like. Finnish health authorities sign off on that.

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      1 month ago

      That isn’t entirely correct, the layer of mucous around the egg is called the bloom - it isn’t shit that protects the egg. The bloom actually protects the egg from bacteria that live in the chicken shit, and washing them removes that layer of mucous . Even still, the likelihood of getting salmonella from a supermarket egg is like 1 in 20k or something like that.

      Source: I have chickens.