Pasteurized Egg Products' Impressive Safety Record
August 30/American Egg Board Press Release -- "In spite of the significant news related to the current egg recall, food manufacturers can have confidence in the egg product supply," notes a release from the American Egg Board. "The first step toward ensuring a safe processed food is to ensure the basic ingredients are safe as well. The egg product safety record allows food processors to rest in the knowledge that they are using a safe ingredient when including further processed, pasteurized eggs. Egg nutritional and functional power is supplied by nature while its safety record is provided by the producers’ hard work and conscientious effort to implement best practices.
"Actually, government and private industry work together to achieve this safety record. Congress passed the Egg Products Inspection Act in 1970, which requires that all egg products distributed for consumption be pasteurized to destroy Salmonella. In the past 40 years, there have been no recorded outbreaks of salmonellosis linked to pasteurized egg products, since the institution of mandatory pasteurization.