FDA uses massive egg recall to push for egg pasteurization

[Elwar]

Amid the massive egg recall currently underway over potential salmonella poisoning, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has been working hard to push its pasteurization agenda. The agency recently made an announcement recommending that all grocery stores and restaurants begin stocking pasteurized eggs instead of raw ones.

http://www.naturalnews.com/029538_FDA_egg_pasteurization.html


Get working on your chicken coops. That's the only way you'll be able to have fresh eggs from here on out.

Here's mine. :)

http://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/33375_cimg0058.jpg

[kahless]

http://www.naturalnews.com/029538_FDA_egg_pasteurization.html


Get working on your chicken coops. That's the only way you'll be able to have fresh eggs from here on out.

Here's mine. :)



They already want to regulate home gardens so no doubt they will try to make it illegal or cost-license prohibitive to raise chickens.

[Elwar]

They already want to regulate home gardens so no doubt they will try to make it illegal or cost-license prohibitive to raise chickens.

Ya, it is illegal in a lot of places already.

Though you could get yourself a stealth coop:

http://www.henspa.com/hencondo_photos/Chicken_Coop.jpg
http://www.henspa.com/hencondo.htm

[kahless]

Ya, it is illegal in a lot of places already.


Zoning restrictions and housing associations is one thing. When you are close quarters with your neighbors I can agree with it. What worries me is regulation on the federal level where I would be required to have a license and be subject to inspections-federal regulations for a home garden or coop.

Of course the feds would never implement it directly and would give your state, county or town federal dollars and incentives to implement it.

I like that stealth coop btw.

[Kotin]

great then eggs won't be nutritious along with milk and juice..


:rolleyes:

[noxagol]

Um, how do you pasturize an egg without cooking it? I've got to be missing something here.

[Kotin]

Um, how do you pasturize an egg without cooking it? I've got to be missing something here.

actually thats a great question.. lol wtf..

[Old Ducker]

actually thats a great question.. lol wtf..

Its a time vs temperature relationship. Liquid eggs are pasteurized continuously in plate heat exchangers at around 133 deg. F. The same thing can be done with egg in the shell by immersion.

[amy31416]

Um, how do you pasturize an egg without cooking it? I've got to be missing something here.

It's easy, used to do it all the time with a media called Egg Yolk Tellurite--we used a process similar to pasteurization called "inspissation." One hour at low temp(~80C), let cool for 12 hours, then another two cycles of 20 min @ about 80C with 12 hours in between.

Pretty costly process, but the egg yolk was still liquid as long as nothing went wrong with the cycles. I imagine they'd push for something like that.

The organism kill rate isn't quite as good as pasteurization, but passed muster with the FDA--not that that means squat.

Expect the price of eggs to go through the roof if they do this. The cost analysis I did on the media inspissation process was quite high, though I don't recall the numbers. Which is just fantastic, because it's one of the few cheap proteins out there that's good for you.

On the up side--black market for stupid shit like eggs expands.

[Kotin]

were getting chickens soon anyways..

[Romulus]

Soon Monsanto will just grow eggs.

[Old Ducker]

Usually issues like this arise from maltreatment of animals and/or poor sanitation. Post infection remedies are merely a band-aid.

[tangent4ronpaul]

So much for home vaccine production - just like the milk police killed home yogurt / cheese production

-t

[libertybrewcity]

fail.

[Zippyjuan]

I bet those guys at Big Pharma are against that idea! Just think- if they start pasturizing eggs, fewer people will get sick from them and buy fewer antibiotics and drugs to deal with it! My local store used to sell pasturized eggs but haven't seen them for quite a while. Maybe they will bring them back in? None of their eggs were in in the recall.

[silus]

Just go to an organic store and git ur eggs. :shrug

I aint gonna deal with a chicken, hell no.