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Show Ten Days Elapse Before Eggs Get to Consumer Utah State Agricultural College researchers have found there is a time lag averaging 10.5 days from the time a hen lays an egg until it gets to consumers. They found that 4 per cent of Utah eggs are in marketing channels chan-nels three to four weeks, 1 per cent more than four weeks. However, How-ever, about two thirds of the total time is spent in getting eggs from candling rooms to consumers. Dr. Roice H. Anderson, associate assoc-iate professor of agricultural economics, ec-onomics, found that 18 per cent of Utah eggs are bought from non-refrigerated non-refrigerated display cases. He found more complaints about stale-ness stale-ness than any other single factor. However, only 12 per cent of consumers sampled made any unfavorable un-favorable comment about the eggs they bought. Dr. Anderson concluded that egg handlers should hold eggs at low temperatures and high humidity, replenish display cases frequently, and rotate stock so that the first eggs in are the first eggs out. |