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Default Left the eggs in the car

Just to follow up, I took a chance and tried the eggs and I survived so
fa......arggggggghhhhh...

thanks
sharkman
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"J. Clarke" > wrote in message
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> On 8/1/2010 9:12 PM, Bob Terwilliger wrote:
>> J. Clarke wrote:
>>
>>>> Well, chickens are obviously not affected by salmonella the way people
>>>> are.
>>>
>>> So you're saying that something that is harmless to a chicken embryo is
>>> dangerous to an adult human? Try again.
>>>
>>> (a) Most eggs do not contain salmonella. There is one rare strain that
>>> can infect an intact egg, but only if the parent chicken's ovaries are
>>> infected. It is estimated that one in 20,000 eggs are so affected.
>>>
>>> (b) Egg white contains several mechanisms that inhibit bacterial
>>> growth--a
>>> reasonably fresh egg, even if infected, is resistant to bacterial
>>> growth.
>>>
>>> (c) In any case, cooking an egg will kill all salmonella present in the
>>> egg.
>>>
>>> (d) Unlike botulism, which does not affect intact eggs, salmonella
>>> leaves
>>> no residual toxins--salmonella only makes you sick if you get a pretty
>>> good dose of the live bacteria.
>>>
>>> (e) If you're really that worried about it, put all your eggs in a 145
>>> degree water bath, stick a thermometer into one of them and when it's
>>> read
>>> over 140 for three minutes you've got pasteurized eggs.
>>>
>>> Of course if you have AIDS or some other immune system deficiency you
>>> need
>>> to be more careful--in that case you probably shouldn't be buying any
>>> eggs
>>> that aren't factory-pasteurized to begin with.

>>
>> None of those points actually challenged what I wrote. I didn't say
>> anything
>> about the health of a chicken embryo. I didn't say anything about methods
>> of
>> killing the salmonella bacterium. I didn't say anything about the
>> prevalence
>> of salmonella in the chicken population.
>>
>> The CHICKEN WHICH LAID THE SALMONELLA-INFECTED EGG was obviously infected
>> with salmonella. Chickens (along with turtles, iguanas, and doubtless
>> numerous other species) routinely carry around salmonella with no
>> apparent
>> ill effects. That's what I wrote, and what you failed to address. Try
>> again.

>
> Fine, live your life in terror of food.