Freshness of coloured hard-boiled hens eggs during storage

08-12-2001 | | |

Before Easter, supermarkets offer coloured hard-boiled eggs often unchilled. The market offers a guaranteed shelf life of up to 28 days but with the advice to “keep eggs refrigerated”. In contrast to fresh eggs, no EU – or national directives exist for hard-boiled eggs. Nevertheless, eggs should always show signs of freshness; but there is little known about how long and in which conditions hard-boiled eggs can be stored.

This article can also be found at World Poultry Volume 17 number 8. To view the article online simply click on the link below.

Keywords: eggs, storage, retail

Join 31,000+ subscribers

Subscribe to our newsletter to stay updated about all the need-to-know content in the poultry sector, three times a week.
1129
More about





Beheer