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Originally Posted by scorpio1980

Also its estimated only 1 in every 36000 eggs to be contaminated, and if you are healthy chances of dying from exposure is very very slim. If I eat 2 eggs a day raw it will take me 49 years to eat 36,000, which means chances are I will not get sick.

I'd be curious to see where you come up with the 1:36000 number?

I googled it real quick and came up with a very high % of infections in chickens:
"Consumer Reports tested a nationwide sample of chickens in 2003 and found that 49% tested positive for one or both bacteria. Since that time, leading chicken producers have stabilized the incidence of salmonella, but the presence of campylobacter has increased at a startling rate. The recent study found that 83% harbored campylobacter or salmonella."

The New York Times reported that up to 60% of chickens sold for meat in the US are infected with salmonella.

But for a moment, let's assuming you number is accurate -- that's not how probability works. It's 1:36000 which means your first egg could be an infected one. The odds of any individual egg might be 1:36000, not every 36,000th egg being infected. And it's possible to even get two infected eggs in a row.



Salmonella is more than a bellyache. It can send you to the hospital for several days. If you're younger, older, or immune compromised it can be extremely dangerous.
Salmonella Enteritidis; from the Chicken to the Egg
Possible Salmonella Deaths Rise to 11 - ABC News


"Three pathogens, Salmonella, Listeria, and Toxoplasma, are responsible for 1,500 deaths each year, more than 75% of those caused by known pathogens, while unknown agents account for the remaining 62 million illnesses, 265,000 hospitalizations, and 3,200 deaths."
Food-Related Illness and Death in the United States

Originally Posted by Barcs

FYI, Salmonella does not come from the chicken eggs being raw, it's comes from the chicken. As long as you wash the shells (soap & water should work, although some use bleach) prior to eating them you should be fine.

Please re-read the CDC article. The infection is inside the chicken, so washing the outside of the shell won't remove pathogens from the inside.

I wouldn't eat white eggs raw, though.

The color of the egg shell has nothing to do with an egg is organic, free-range, infected, or healthier. Shell color is determined by breed of chicken.