Popular FLORIDA restaurant lead hospitality industry by converting to pasteurized shell eggs usage - (from a press release)

February 7, 2008 – 6:29 pm

The Broken Egg Leads the Way in Food Safety in Sunshine State by Using Pasteurized Shell Eggs to Eliminate Risk of Food-Borne Illness
Lansing, Illinois — National Pasteurized Eggs,
http://www.safeeggs.com, announced today that The Broken Egg restaurants in Lakewood Ranch and Sarasota, Fla., will now exclusively use its Davidson’s Safest Choice Pasteurized Shell Eggs brand for all dishes requiring eggs.
By using Davidson’s pasteurized shell eggs, The Broken Egg joins a growing number of U.S. restaurants and food service entities that are converting to pasteurized shell eggs to eliminate the risk of Salmonella enteritidis (SE), the main egg-related Salmonella bacteria. The Broken Egg, which serves nearly 300,000 eggs per year, is the area’s first breakfast and lunch restaurant to use 100 percent pasteurized shell eggs in every egg dish. Use of pasteurized shell eggs has skyrocketed in the past year, due to consumer concerns about food safety in wake of food-borne illness outbreaks […]


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