thanks for all the great and informative replies.... I do feel a little safer now, I also didn't know that spanish chefs were prohibited from making mayo with raw eggs... also I didn't know you could get alioli in jars.. I'll have a look in the supermarket later.

I eat loads of eggs, I always dip them in water to check freshness a floating egg is off, if it tilts it's ok to eat but getting on a bit.

A fresh egg should lie flat on it's side.

I always thought the Salmonella bacteria was on the outside of the shell and NOT inside

It could be either.

http://news.discovery.com/human/egg-...-bacteria.html

You are suggesting that there is no food safety in Spain? Again with your prejudices...

I have eaten eggs all my life, of supermarkets or of the family farm, also cucumbers (for something that we accused the Germans, when the disease was in its country) etc etc, so I have eaten of everything, and I have never been contaminated

Salmonella can sprout anywhere, you just have to have hygienic habits. Salmonella or any disease. Or nobody remember the mad cow disease, in UK?

Please...

Mad cow diease...remember it well. Do you remember that Spain had it too!

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/ma...beef-m07.shtml

Of course. But this disease began in the UK, not Spain. It arrived to the continent because the British authorities hid this fact

I do not think that anyone has suggested that ?

neither do I

but you know Relampago - he strikes like, well, like lightning

No - nobody has.

The title of the thread seems to suggest the possibility of higher likelihood of something "bad" in Spanish eggs vs. the UK (I presume), which isn't a silly thing ask at all, considering that Spain is still a bit backward in many other ways.

But reality is that there's probably no difference at all. I've never had a second thought about it.

Although obviously, not as backward as you are

IMHO the only difference between eggs in Spain and eggs in UK is that Spain is a hotter climate and therefore the storage conditions are more critical and the shelf life may be shorter.
I don't think getting paranoid or xenophobic about eggs helped Edwina Curry

for telling the truth

surely the only way to ensure eggs are safe is the same way for all foods - cook it properly to kill the salmonella

there are more people killed on the roads every day by motor cars than die of salmonella ridden eggs every year. No one would consider banning the motor car.

There are plenty of other things more worthy of worrying about. Eggs are far from the most pressing or worries, but then I reckon some are just phobic about anything. There are those who will immediately toss anything that has an expiry date of today, fearing food poisoning. We know a few people who always fully wash their dishes by hand before putting them in the dishwasher to eliminate all chance of bacteria

Then of course there's the table manners thread

oh yes, the table manners thread, that was hilarious and went on for days... I enjoyed keeping up with that one, I couldn't contribute as we don't even possess a dining table, we eat on the coffee table... unheard of in Spain I believe.