{"id":23440,"date":"2019-09-22T02:15:02","date_gmt":"2019-09-22T01:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=23440"},"modified":"2019-09-22T02:15:02","modified_gmt":"2019-09-22T01:15:02","slug":"eggs-and-salmonella","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=23440","title":{"rendered":"Eggs And Salmonella"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"524\" height=\"198\" title=\"Eggs snapping exotically in a pool of butter\" align=\"left\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 524px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 524\/198;margin: 5px 10px 5px 0px; float: left; display: inline; background-image: none;\" alt=\"Eggs snapping exotically in a pool of butter\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/fried_eggs.png\" border=\"0\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\">Most people will remember the Edwin Curry saga back in 1988, where she claimed that most eggs were contaminated with Salmonella. It led to a dramatic fall in egg sales (60%), and it destroyed her political career.<\/p>\n<p>Ironically, there actually had been a Salmonella epidemic, even though the furore resulting from her comments sought to deny any problem.&nbsp; The whole matter is quite complicated, and I won\u2019t go into it here. But it wasn\u2019t until about 2017 that the Food Standards Agency (FSA) finally announced that it was, after all, safe for \u201cvulnerable people\u201d (pregnant women and the elderly, in particular) to eat soft-boiled or runny eggs. It\u2019s funny that even though there was \u201cno problem\u201d back in 1988, it took 30 years to officially come out and declare it in such a way that the implication was there <strong>had<\/strong> been a problem for all that time, but there you go.<\/p>\n<p>In between times, it had been a case of yes\/no\/maybe when the question about the safety of eating eggs \u2013 especially soft-boiled or runny ones &#8211; cropped up.<\/p>\n<p>I read an article somewhere in the last week that mentioned a Salmonella outbreak across several flocks (the difference between a \u201cflock\u201d and chickens in general is a highly complex and political situation in itself). But <a title=\"FSA issues precautionary egg safety and handling advice concerning one flock code\" href=\"https:\/\/www.food.gov.uk\/news-alerts\/alert\/fsa-fafa-02-2019\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an FSA alert came through today warning people that British Lion Eggs<\/a> (those are the ones that Brexiters believe have red, white, and blue yolks, and which play Land of Hope and Glory when you crack one) from Flock 1UK1187 with Best Before dates of 22, 23, and 24 September may be contaminated with Salmonella, and should be cooked thoroughly.<\/p>\n<p>FSA emphasises that this affects a single flock code, but the story I saw suggested more might be affected, so I expect this one to escalate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most people will remember the Edwin Curry saga back in 1988, where she claimed that most eggs were contaminated with Salmonella. It led to a dramatic fall in egg sales (60%), and it destroyed her political career. Ironically, there actually had been a Salmonella epidemic, even though the furore resulting from her comments sought to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[98,93,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brexit","category-food-related","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}