A MICROBIOLOGICAL SAFETY CONSUMER SURVEY ON THE HOUSEHOLD USE OF EGGS IN BELGIUM |
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| Authors: | KOEN GRIJSPEERDT LIEVE HERMAN LUITGARDE BILLIET |
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| Affiliation: | Ministry of Small Enterprises Traders and Agriculture Centre of Agricultural Research Department of Animal Product Quality Brusselsesteenweg 370 9090 Melle, Belgium;Katholieke Hogeschool Brugge-Oostende, campus Sint-Michiel Faculty of Health Care Spoorwegstraat 12 8200 Brugge Belgium |
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| Abstract: | A survey of parents of higher education college students assessed the purchasing behavior, storage conditions and consumption of hen eggs in the household, to quantify microbiological unsafe handling. Analysis of the questionnaires indicates an average consumption of 6.4 eggs per month, which are kept at an average temperature of 9.7C for 2 weeks. An additional spot check showed that the interviewees probably underestimate the keeping temperature. The questionnaire also listed a series of egg dishes, which were afterwards categorized according to risk. The distributions of storage temperature, keeping time and type of dish were combined using a Monte Carlo resampling technique, which resulted in a hazard distribution. This distribution showed that the majority of the samples (98.2%) fell into a low hazard category. |
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