[aequitas]

Interesting, never knew there was a difference. Just looked it up: in EU chickens are vaccinated against salmonella and the US not. But cleaning them does make the eggs vulnerable due to removing the outer protective layer. Hence they need to be refrigerated. Still strange though every fridge I know comes with a egg basket though nobody I know in the Netherlands puts their eggs in the fridge.

[kyriakos]

Netherlands may not be hot enough but in Cyprus for example we store our eggs in the fridge or they go bad much sooner.