Abstract
THE use of reclaimed egg casing material is quite common in the egg products industry. In some plants eggs are brought to the grading plant in used cases, and then the graded eggs are shipped in new material. Eggleton and Carpenter (1961) discussed economic factors associated with continued reuse of egg cases. They did not discuss possible economic losses due to transportation of disease producing microorganisms through used cases. Organisms belonging to the genus Salmonella have been reported on shell eggs (Board et al., 1963; Harvey et al., 1963). It is evident that these organisms might also be found on used filler flats contaminated from the infected shell eggs. Since the eggs come into closer contact with the filler flats than with the egg cases, a method to assure salmonellae free filler flats was investigated. EXPERIMENTAL PROCEDUREThe organisms used in the first test included Escherichia coli, Aerobacter aerogenes, Salmonella…
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