Improving hygiene in egg grading and packing

Because eggs are will protected in their shell, health concerns used to be centred around the shell’s contents. Today’s trend is that the whole egg is considered ‘food’, even though nobody actually eats the ‘package’. Developments in machinery design can help to maintain egg shell integrity and deliver more healthy eggs.

This article can also be found at World Poultry Volume 22 number 4. To view the article online simply click on the link below.

Keywords: Eggs, egg grading, hygiene, UV light, egg shells