[RoyalHenOil]

Unwashed eggs can also be refrigerated, and they last an absurdly long time that way — much, much longer than either refrigerated washed eggs or unrefrigerated unwashed eggs.

Once you refrigerate unwashed eggs, though, they need to stay refrigerated thereafter.

[magicalhippo]

Here in Norway, farmers have been lamenting the EU rules of requiring a rather short "best before" limit of 28 days while our eggs are safe a lot longer[1], typically 4 months but can last over a year[2].

So they changed it to "best before <date> but not bad after" and have been regularly running campaigns reminding people.

[1]: https://www.prior.no/artikkel/datomerking-av-egg

[2]: https://www.nrk.no/livsstil/eggene-varer-_nesten_-evig-1.759...