Experiments Relating to the Spoilage of Washed Eggs

Abstract

DURING the last year there has been considerable discussion of the problem of washing eggs because of the introduction of a great many commercial egg washing machines. Some of these machines have been advertised as the solution to the problem of spoilage in washed eggs. For years it has been recognized that washed eggs have a greater loss in cold storage than eggs which have not been washed. For this reason either dry cleaning by abrasive methods or the storing of clean eggs have been recommended for cold storage. Although some commercial egg washing machines have been in use for many years, it has been generally recognized that a marketing problem exists where eggs from these machines must be sold. Sometimes many of the eggs washed on the machines rot while at other times they seem to keep as well as unwashed eggs.Funk (1938) presented work showing that under .