/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>19084098
Yeah all documentation will imply that a chemical wash should be used very heavily, but it's not a hard requirement for most producers

Generally the stuff that goes "YOU MUST DO IT THIS WAY (should you choose to)" applies to the highest throughput production scale, not to independent brands
The egg production standards in our country that regulators hold producers to range from cottage industry (must be visibly clean at point of sale or cop a fat fine at the farmers market) to independent industry (must have a clear documentation on egg production, cleaning methods and pass random site testing) to conglomerate industry (wash method recommendations are no longer optional) https://www.australianeggs.org.au/farming/egg-quality-standards

woolies and coles store brand eggs are inferior specifically because they have to chlorine wash to the most stringent guidelines, the eggshells then become more bleached and brittle and the quality drops to be identical to the american standard, at the same time they can wholesale for less because they're not diverting or removing dirty eggs unless they're egregious and taking a loss that's represented in the price of sale, eggs that should've been discarded will still ship out in a store brand carton
the funny thing is that the regulators basically guarantee that all our egg companies eventually topple when they approach the giants at the top, while at the same time guaranteeing that the industry giants can never push out the "premium" product independents