Advanced Oxidation Process sanitization of hatching eggs reduces Salmonella in broiler chicks

Salmonella penetration of egg shells and proliferation in broiler hatching eggs--a review.

The presence of salmonellae in fertile broiler hatching eggs has been clearly identified as a critical control point in the salmonellae contamination of broiler chickens. This paper reviews the published research studies on a) the penetration and proliferation of salmonellae in hatching eggs, b) the consequences of this contamination on the contamination of the final product, and c) the egg's d...

Spraying hatching eggs with electrolyzed oxidizing water reduces eggshell microbial load without compromising broiler production parameters.

An experiment was conducted to determine whether spraying hatching eggs with electrolyzed oxidizing (EO) water would decrease eggshell microbial load and hence improve hatchability, chick quality, and broiler growth performance. Eggs were collected from a broiler breeder flock; half the eggs were sprayed with EO water and the other half were left untreated. Enterobacteriaceae and total aerobic ...

Bactericidal Treatment of Hatching Eggs Iv. Hydrogen Peroxide Applied with Vacuum and a Surfactant to Eliminate Salmonella from Hatching Eggs

Bacteria (including salmonellae) can be pulled into and through the shell and membrane of broiler hatching eggs as they cool. When this occurs, salmonellae are out of reach of a surfaceapplied chemical treatment, because direct contact is usually required to achieve a kill. Over many years of research, a large number of disinfectant chemicals have been tested on hatching eggs. We have found H2O...

Risk assessments of Salmonella in eggs and broiler chickens

An automatic monitoring of the hatching process based on the noise of the hatching chicks.

In this manuscript, a new tool is presented for automatic monitoring of the hatching process of eggs without opening the incubator doors. The amount of energy in the noise produced by the hatchlings was registered by means of a microphone and a personal computer for signal treatment. Evidence is shown that it is possible to detect exactly when the first chicks are hatched, the mean hatching tim...