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> wrote:

>The raw egg thing is pretty much overblown too. The United Egg
>Producers estimate that about 1 in 20,000 eggs sold in the US are
>contaminated by salmonella.


I'm guessing that's the percentage of eggs internally contaminated,
and they're not counting bacteria on the surface of the egg.

Either that or it's a completely fasle statistic.

Steve