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| | Eqq quality: Food Science Australia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) |
 | | In a fresh egg this air cell is quite small but as the egg ages, water is lost from the 17,000 pores in the egg and the air cell gets larger. |
 | | Clean eggs, free of visible defects of the shell and contents, will then remain at high quality for up to three months and will still be as 'fresh' as eggs stored for seven days at room temperature. |
 | | Eggs, like other protein foods such as meat, fish and poultry, may be contaminated with microbes which can, if allowed to grow, cause food poisoning. |
| www.foodscience.afisc.csiro.au /eggquality.htm (997 words) |
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