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Focus II
Annette Goodline I IkT*
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Northampton Co. // 1 /
Extension Agent
Easter Egg Safety
It's time to introduce your
children and grandchildren to
your family's Easter tradition;
dyeing hard-boiled eggs is one
ipany families have done over
die years. But as we leam more
about food home illnesses, the
techniques used for making, dec
orating and using Easter eggs
may need to be modified.
Directions for making hard
boiled eggs usually recommend
bring the eggs to room tempera
ture before placing in cold water
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and bringing to a boil. Allowing
the eggs to warm to room tem
perature speeds the aging
process and the eggs will peel
more easily but eggs should only
be out of the refrigerator 15-20
minutes before cooking them.
Follow the recommendations to
start the cooking process in cold
water so the temperature will
rise gradually and allow the air
inside the egg to pass through
the pores of the shell with out
cracking the shell.
The new recommendation is
to cool eggs by placing under
cold running water till cool. This
method quickly cools eggs to the
40' F. and helps prevent the
green coating that sometimes
forms around the yolk. The eggs
are now ready for you and the
children to begin the fun part of
decorating. The time allowed for
this project needs to be limited
to less than hour so the eggs can
be refrigerated within the two
hour time frame allowed for
high risk foods.
The eggs have been safely
cooked and decorated and now
it's time for the next tradition;
the Easter egg hunt. During the
heating process the egg's natur
al resistance to bacterial inva
sion is destroyed and bacteria
can re-enter the egg through the
pores in the eggs. This means
the eggs must be hidden in
"safe" places where they are pro
tected from soil, dust, pets and
other sources of bacteria, as you
can see the hiding places for an
egg hunt are limited when you
use real eggs. Most outdoor egg
hunts would be considered an
unsafe environment for hiding
eggs since the eggs would be in
the grass where pets or other
animals might be in contact
with the eggs. An indoor egg
hunt would be safe if the eggs
are hidden within a half hour of
the hunt time. As soon as the
eggs are found they need to be
refrigerated. As mentioned
above a hard-boiled egg can only
be out of refrigeration for about
an hour during the decorating so
you really only have an hour to
hide and find the-eggs before
they would be unsafe to eat.
My suggestion for an egg
hunt - use plastic eggs. Then
you can hide the eggs outside
and even the night before so you
don't have to get up early to hide
the eggs. Donations of plastic
New Funding To Protect Streams
ANNAPOLIS, Md.
Maryland Department of agri
lumn
Unctttar Fuming, Saturday, April 4,1998-BS
eggs are a good idea for school,
scout or community eggs hunts
since plastic eggs don't need
refrigeration.
Easter eggs can cause food
home illness if they are handled
incorrectly. Any bacteria that
pass into the egg after cooking
will grow rapidly at room tem
peratures. (Bacteria double in
number every 15-20 minutes If
an egg starts with only five bac
teria, in two hours at room tem
perature it would have over a
thousand.) Easter eggs that are
without refrigeration over two
hours are unsafe and should be
discarded! Remember to count
the decorating time as part of
the total time out of refrigera
tion. Please change your Easter
egg hunt tradition slightly this
year and use plastic eggs.
culture Secretary Henry A.
Virts, D.V.M., today announced
that Ducks Unlimited, Inc. and the
Chesapeake Bay Foundation have signed
an agreement with the State of Maryland
and the U.S. Department of Agriculture to
provide up to $5.5 million in additional
cost-share funds over the next five years to
help farmers protect environmentally-sen
sitive land along Maryland's streams and
rivers. The agreement bolsters the $l9O
million in funding allocated last fall under
the Maryland Conserv-ation Reserve
Enhancement Program (CREP) to help
farmers protect local waterways by offer
ing increased payments to convert environ
mentally-sensitive crop land into vegeta
tive buffers, stream side forests and wet
lands. The additional funding will enable
farmers to receive up to 100 percent of the
cost to install certain conservation prac
tices to protect water quality in maryland's
streams and rivers.
"This new public-private partnership
will make it easier for fanners to balance
the desire to participate in environmental
protection programs with the need to earn
a profit on their land," said Secretary Virts.
"It's a win-win situation for Maryland
farmers and the Chesapeake Bay," he
added.
Farmers interested in finding out more
about the increased benefits for stream
side conservation practices should call or
visit their local Soil Conservation District
office or USDA Service Center. For more
information about the agreement, contact
the State Soil Conservation Committee at
(410)841-5863.
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