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  • I live in California in the United States, and I’ve never heard of washing hands after touching regular supermarket eggs.

    After a little googling, why this is so: California state law requires state-registered egg producers, i.e. any commercial size operation, whether they’re in-state, or out-of-state, to perform treatment, such as pasteurization and vaccination of laying hens against Salmonella.

    “Repacked eggs” i.e. eggs in a typical supermarket egg container must be “clean” which has a specific legal definition which pretty much means washed and, under USDA rules, sanitized.

    In Europe, things are obviously different, and may be different in each country/province/city.

    This state law only applies to commercial egg producers. Obviously if I were to handle eggs from backyard chickens, I would have to wash and sanitize the eggs and my hands.

    TIL!