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Eggs are popular but pose serious health risks
Posted under Content by baryantAmericans eat about 5 billion eggs per year, which makes the eggs one of the most popular products in America. Eggs provide low cost, high quality protein, but they also pose serious health risks because of fat contained in their yolks and because poultry can be a great source of serious human diseases.
The eggs are popular because they are versatile for cooking and baking, and they are cheap. Bakers use them to bind the biscuits and cakes together, and help them brown baking.
Most of the food eaten at breakfast, where people often combine eggs with cheese, ham and bacon, all of which are sky high in saturated fats.
Fat
Seventy percent of the calories in an egg come from saturated fats, and they are very high in cholesterol with about 213 milligrams of cholesterol in the egg. Compared to regular hamburger has about 122 milligrams of cholesterol. All fat and cholesterol in the yolk.
Salmonella outbreak
Last summer, eggs made national news when the salmonella outbreak affected the number of poultry egg size in the Midwest. Salmonella is a bacteria that can pass from poultry and their waste on the content of the eggshell if this is the shell of weak or broken. The disease can be fatal, especially for young children and the elderly.
In August 2010 large farms, like an egg Hillandale and Wright County Egg had to recall 171 million eggs because of possible contamination with salmonella. Scare depression sales for much of the fall and there were people looking for alternative products.Salmonella also infects beef and other meat usually.
Groups concerned about the animals they say salmonella is spreading rapidly in the huge farm chicken eggs, as tightly packed together all their lives and live in their own waste and push a large number of eggs produced by breeding and hormone supplements.
Last summer, the Food and Drug Administration has also introduced new rules for egg producers are designed to reduce disease risk taking in warehouses and distributed to consumers. Public advocates fear that the FDA does not have staff to ensure the new rules and with the Congress, which is to reduce the cost FDA, more salmonella outbreak may be inevitable in the future.









