[gitgreen]

Your first statement is not true. Eggs can absolutely have salmonella in them if the chicken ovary is infected as the egg is forming.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC173326/

Unless the rules changed within the last six years, if a hen house returns a positive environmental Salmonella Enteritidis test and the farm is large enough they must undergo an egg break test to show that the eggs themselves are not infected with SE before they can be sold to consumers. If the egg test is positive the eggs can only be sold as some form of pasteurized egg product until testing shows negative.

Page 47 if you're bored. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2009-07-09/pdf/E9-161...

[ofalkaed]

From the practical consumer standpoint, it is essentially true. Getting an egg with salmonella in it is like winning the lottery. But good information either way since some people do get their eggs from small farms which are exempt from testing.

[_2uwr]

Thats interesting because the egg white is rich in avidin which binds biotin which inhibits many bacterial pathogens, but not viruses because flu vaccines are grown in sterile eggs. The BBC broadcasted this with cross rail plague pits when they got a bod from porton down in to explain some of this stuff.

I can find these studies suggesting salmonella inhibits biotin in the gut[1], and this link suggesting a biotin deficiency can increase susceptibility to salmonella [2].

However one thing that can not be disputed is the reduction in choline intake from the egg yolk would have dumbed down the nation much like covid has dumbed down the world aka brain fog.

Maybe we need a law to sue political parties out of existence if they screw the nation.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4504957 [2] https://academic.oup.com/nutritionreviews/article-abstract/4...

[aaronharnly]

I’m not sure if this is regionalisms, or an industry jargon I’m not familiar with, but I couldn’t make head or tails of “BBC broadcasted this with cross rail plague pits when they got a bod from porton down in to explain some of this stuff”. Could you help me understand?

[manarth]

Cross-rail is a new underground metro line in London. During digging of the tunnels, they discovered interesting archeological remains, which included plague pits (where plague victims were disposed of).

Portion Down is the site of a UK military facility specialising in research into chemical and biological hazards.

/Brit