It seems that the hard-boiled egg is the safest way eating eggs.
This was one of today's headline news from Yahoo.

이선배님.

저희가 어릴 때는 날계란을 많이 먹었지요.
양쪽에 구멍을 뚫어 빨아 먹기도 했고,
아니면 뜨거운 밥에 기코만 쏘유로 간을 하여 비벼 먹기도  했는데요.

나도 그랬읍니다.
나는 어린시절을 시골에서 자라났는데,
날계란을 석희님처럼 자주 먹었지요.

I sucked and emptied the egg into my mouth, just like Dr. Yu did when I was young.
Just wonder if the virulent strain of Salmonella had been around in those days?

Or, are those fatal E. Coli and virulent Salmonella infection a modern day product?
One thing for sure, we got a lot of "new" stuff nowadays that we hadn't had before.
Good or bad, we have to put up with them.

From now on, I will eat only hard-boiled eggs and well-cooked omlets.
Dr. Lee, do I thank you for that?
Hm... No more pleasure of sucking the bottom of raw eggs ?? ㅎ, ㅎ, ㅎ.

'Sam-Gye-Tang' tasted good yesterday after golf.
I don't have stomach problem.

Chicken was boiled, as you know.
Or it was free of S. Enteritidis(what?).

Did I take the road to 'Sam-Cheon-Po"?
Instead of talking about 'Eggs' here, 
talking about 'Sam-Gye-Tang'? Maybe. 

제가 잊지 못하는 삼계탕은 하숙생활 후 기말시험 끝나고 대구 본가에 내려가면
어머니가 마당에 솥을 걸고 뭉긋한 불에 전날부터 끓여 주시던 삼계탕입니다.
맵씨좋은 닭 한마리, 소의 양과 족, 그리고 백삼 몇뿌리를 끓이면
맛의 조화가 일어나 닭 냄새도 양 냄새도 족 냄새도 없어지지요.
한 며칠간 이것을 먹고 나면 기력을 회복합니다.

삼천포에서 본고장으로 다시돌아와서 이야기를해보면,ㅎ,ㅎ.

예전에는 날계란이 목청 돋구는데 좋다해서 가수 자망생들이
생계란 몇줄씩 먹어대던 시절도 있지 않았습니까?
어떤 근거에서 그런지는 몰라도----.  규정

WASHINGTON (AFP) – August 21, 2010,One of the largest-ever US recalls grew to more than half a billion chicken eggs Saturday when a second producer pulled eggs potentially contaminated with salmonella bacteria, an industry official said.

There are no known salmonella deaths due to the eggs, but the US Food and Drug Administration is investigating the origins of a salmonella outbreak that has jumped to 1,953 cases between May and July -- more than twice the normal number of cases for the period.

"Hillandale Farms has recalled 170 million eggs" that had been distributed across 14 US states, Krista Eberle, director of food safety programs at the industry's Egg Safety Center, told AFP.

"This is certainly one of the largest recalls the industry has seen," Eberle added.

Some 380 million eggs were voluntarily recalled one week earlier by Wright County Egg, in Galt, Iowa, officials said.

The FDA and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) were seeking to confirm just how many people across at least 14 states, from California to Arkansas, have actually been sickened by the eggs.

FDA spokeswoman Pat El-Hinnawy said there were on-site investigators at both Hillandale Farms and Wright County Egg. "The recalls are related," El-Hinnawy said.

The CDC has warned that the outbreak could actually be larger than reported, because most people who get sick from salmonella do not seek medical treatment.

"Far more people likely have been impacted," said CDC media relations director Glen Nowak.

The FDA said infected rodents many have spread the salmonella.

The companies have decided to pasteurize all their fresh stocks of eggs to kill off any salmonella bacteria. Eberle said some of the recalled eggs could be pasteurized and then used in commercial egg products like liquid egg whites and pancake mix.

Salmonella is spread most often by the consumption of food contaminated by animal fecal matter, according to health experts.

The microbe usually flourishes within the intestinal tracts of fowl and mammals.

An estimated 400,000 people are infected with food-borne salmonella each year in the United States, according to the CDC.

WASHINGTON – Two Iowa farms that together recalled more than half a billion potentially tainted eggs this month share close ties, including suppliers of chickens and feed.

Both farms are linked to businessman Austin "Jack" DeCoster, who has been cited for numerous health, safety and employment violations over the years. DeCoster owns Wright County Egg, the original farm that recalled 380 million eggs Aug. 13 after they were linked to more than 1,000 reported cases of salmonella poisoning.

Another of his companies, Quality Egg, supplies young chickens and feed to both Wright County Egg and Hillandale Farms, the second farm that recalled another 170 million eggs a week later.

Jewanna Porter, a spokeswoman for the egg industry, said the two companies share other suppliers as well, but she did not name them.

The cause of the outbreaks is so far unknown, as Food and Drug Administration investigators are still on the ground at the farms trying to figure it out. The federal Centers for Disease Control has said the number of illnesses, estimated as high as 1,300, would likely grow.

DeCoster is no stranger to controversy in his food and farm operations:

• In 1997, DeCoster Egg Farms agreed to pay $2 million in fines to settle citations brought in 1996 for health and safety violations at DeCoster's farm in Turner, Maine. Then-Labor Secretary Robert Reich said conditions were "as dangerous and oppressive as any sweatshop." He cited unguarded machinery, electrical hazards, exposure to harmful bacteria and other unsanitary conditions.

• In 2000, Iowa designated DeCoster a "habitual violator" of environmental regulations for problems that included hog manure runoff into waterways. The label made him subject to increased penalties and prohibited him from building new farms.

• In 2002, the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced a more than $1.5 million settlement of an employment discrimination lawsuit against DeCoster Farms on behalf of Mexican women who reported they were subjected to sexual harassment, including rape, abuse and retaliation by some supervisory workers at DeCoster's Wright County plants.

• In 2007, 51 workers were arrested during an immigration raid at six DeCoster egg farms. The farm had been the subject of at least three previous raids.

• In June 2010, Maine Contract Farming — the successor company to DeCoster Egg Farms — agreed in state court to pay $25,000 in penalties and to make a one-time payment of $100,000 to the Maine Department of Agriculture over animal cruelty allegations that were spurred by a hidden-camera investigation by an animal welfare organization.

It is unclear what role DeCoster's company played in the current salmonella outbreak. The FDA investigation could take months, and sources of contamination are often difficult to find. The current recall goes back to April, and many of the eggs have already been consumed.

Still, DeCoster's Wright County Egg is already facing at least two lawsuits related to the egg recall. One is from food distributor Dutch Farms, which says the company used unauthorized cartons to package and sell eggs under its brand without its knowledge.

The other is from a person who said they became ill after eating tainted eggs in a salad at a restaurant in Kenosha, Wis.

The CDC said investigations by 10 states since April have identified 26 cases where more than one person became ill. Preliminary information showed that Wright was the supplier in at least 15 of those.

Almost 2,000 illnesses from the strain of salmonella linked to both recalls were reported between May and July, nearly 1,300 more than usual, the CDC said. No deaths have been reported.

The most common symptoms of salmonella are diarrhea, abdominal cramps and fever within eight hours to 72 hours of eating a contaminated product. The disease can be life-threatening, especially to those with weakened immune systems.

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Associated Press Writer Jeff Baenen in Minneapolis contributed to this report.