Why Europeans Dont Refrigerate Their Eggs British supermarkets dont refrigerate eggs. The breakfast food can be found hanging out between the canned vegetables and boxes of dry cake mix in the grocery store aisle with other traditionally nonperishable foods. This surprised me since in the U.S., eggs are typically found in the refrigerated dairy aisle with the butter, cheeses, and milk. So whats the deal? Why doesnt anyone in the U.K. freak out over eggs sitting in room temperatures for days on end? It seems that different egg storage conditions come down to the different ways that eggs are farmed and processed in the U.S. compared to the U.K. and other European nations. In the U.S., the Department of Agriculture (USDA) requires that eggs destined to be sold on supermarket shelves — called graded eggs — are washed and sprayed with a chemical sanitizer before they are sold to the public to reduce the risk of salmonella infection. In the U.K., Grade A hen eggs may not be washed because the process is thought to aid the transfer of harmful bacteria like salmonella from the outside to the inside of the egg, according to the Food Safety Authority of Ireland . In fact, Forbes contributor Nadia Arumugam pointed out that USDA graded eggs could not be legally sold in the U.K. ( and the other way around) d ue to these different preparation methods. finance.yahoo/news/why-europe-doesnt-refrigerate-eggs-164710113.html
Posted on: Sat, 12 Jul 2014 10:44:51 +0000
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