Boiling eggs until the yolk solidifies kills pathogens such as salmonella. Start them in plenty of cold water, bring it slowly to a boil, then pull the pan off the heat and let them sit about 10 minutes; cooling them right away eases peeling. One egg carries more than 300 mg of cholesterol.
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Biological
Eggs: Reducing the Risk of Illness from Salmonella
A CDC epidemiologist explains that Salmonella can live on and inside normal-looking eggs, and advises refrigerating eggs at or below 40F, washing hands and surfaces after contact with raw eggs, discarding cracked or dirty ones, and cooking eggs thoroughly.
Agriculture
Factory Farm Egg Production, without Mandated Outdoor Access, Challenged (PR)
The Cornucopia Institute filed a USDA complaint alleging that Herbruck's Poultry Ranch and a supplier to Organic Valley confine organic laying hens indoors, arguing small porches fail the rule requiring year-round outdoor access for all animals.
Biological
Egg safety
Cook scrambled eggs until firm and fried, poached or boiled eggs until white and yolk are set; egg casseroles should reach 160 degrees F. Homemade ice cream and eggnog are safe made with a cooked egg-milk mixture or pasteurized eggs, which can also replace raw eggs in uncooked recipes.
Biological
Egg Storage Chart
A refrigerator and freezer storage chart for eggs and egg products: raw shell eggs keep 3 to 5 weeks refrigerated and should not be frozen in the shell, raw whites keep 2 to 4 days or 12 months frozen, and hard-cooked eggs keep a week and do not freeze.
Food Chemicals
Eggs shell out more vitamin D, less cholesterol
USDA testing of large eggs from 12 locations found 185 mg of cholesterol per egg, down from 215 mg a decade ago, and vitamin D at 41 IU, up from 25 IU. Researchers suggest improvements in hens' diets may explain the drop.
Heart & Blood
Job stress, cholesterol boost cardiovascular disease risk
Among 17,415 healthy women followed over a decade in the Women's Health Study, those reporting high job stress faced 40 percent higher risk of heart attack, stroke, bypass surgery, angioplasty or death. Job insecurity tracked with risk factors but not with events.
Food
If You Eat These Eggs, You are Being Ripped Off
The Cornucopia Institute visited over 15% of US certified egg farms and reports that most large 'organic' operations give hens no real outdoor access, counting small roofed porches as the outdoors, sometimes 3 to 5 percent of the henhouse floor area.
Agriculture
Are Organic Eggs Safer?
After officials traced the salmonella behind the recall of half a billion eggs to barns and feed at two Iowa farms, Dr. Mercola argues that flock size and housing matter more than labels: eggs from flocks of 30,000 or more and from caged hens carry far more salmonella than small free-range ones.
Food
Salmonella with Your Omelet? Don't forget Stroke and Ovarian Cancer
An opinion piece urging readers to stop buying eggs, citing salmonella, cholesterol, claimed links to diabetes and ovarian cancer, antibiotic residues, and undercover video of bloody, insect-covered eggs at a California farm.
Alerts
Another egg recall issued, salmonella outbreak updated
Sparboe Farms voluntarily recalled eggs produced by Wright County Egg and Hillandale Farms and distributed across ten states, one of about a dozen recalls tied to a salmonella outbreak that had sickened more than a thousand people. Affected plant numbers and Julian dates are listed.
Food
Eating eggs, breastfeeding affect risk of diabetes mellitus (type 2)
Women who never breastfed were nearly twice as likely to be diagnosed with type 2 diabetes as those who did, in a study of 2,233 women aged 40 to 78. A separate Harvard analysis of two large trials found diabetes risk rose with the number of eggs eaten.
Alerts
Which eggs have recently been recalled?
The FDA identified Wright County Egg in Iowa as the source of shell eggs behind a Salmonella Enteritidis outbreak; the eggs went out nationwide under several brand names and should be thrown away or returned. The piece also explains how the FDA and USDA divide recall duties.
Biological
Tips to Reduce Your Risk of Salmonella from Eggs
Wright County Egg recalled up to 380 million shell eggs over possible salmonella contamination, spanning 13 brands in eight states. CDC advises keeping eggs refrigerated until use and cooking them thoroughly, since a runny yolk carries more risk than a fully cooked one.
Food
Eating eggs not linked to diabetes
Over 11 years, 313 of 3,898 older adults in the Cardiovascular Health Study developed type 2 diabetes, and researchers found no link to egg consumption. The article notes earlier studies, including ones by the same authors, pointed the other way.
Alerts
Why You Don't Want to Buy Organic Eggs at the Grocery Store
Mercola argues that supermarket organic eggs lose out to eggs from pastured hens because of what happens after collection: some states require a chlorine bath and mineral oil coating, and the USDA allows up to 30 days between laying and processing.
Food
Cholesterol, eggs raises heart risk in older people
Among 1,941 older adults followed nine years, dietary fat was not linked to cardiovascular events, but those in the top third for cholesterol intake had 47 percent higher risk, and people eating more than three eggs a week were 68 percent more likely to have a heart attack, coronary death or stroke.
Cooking
Deviled Eggs Recipe Rachael Ray
A deviled eggs recipe adapted from Vivian Jao for Easter, using 12 eggs, mayonnaise, mustard, cayenne and paprika, with advice to bring the eggs to a boil over low heat and then move them straight into ice water so the shells peel off easily.
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