pregnancy and duck eggs

[Stoney Meadow Maple]

a young lady who gets eggs from me just found out she is expecting, good news, except her Dr said no more locally produced foods (apparently my duck eggs weren't the only things on her no more list, unpasteurized milk, unpasturized cheese etc etc, I don't take it personally) apparently according to the Dr the store bought eggs have been washed and are therefore deemed safe. I guess in my mind, knowing how clean I keep my duck house, this seems a little bit silly, but I am not going to argue with a Dr on matters of someone else health.
question here. I have always not washed duck eggs unless they somehow got particularly soiled, if so I did so under cold running water, how would I wash them to get to the " store bought standard of cleanliness"? soap and water and a sponge? dilute bleach solution?
I assume the big risk here is salmonella? frankly I have probably been more lax than I should be about my own safety precautions in dealing with my birds, however I do believe that by keeping them clean, their water clean, there bedding clean I probably am negating any issues that are sometimes present with poultry.
additionally do ducks have the same contagens as chickens do? or are they just being lumped in with chickens because they have feathers and produce eggs?

 

[Miss Lydia]

This is interesting and says it all.
https://backyardpoultry.iamcountryside.com/eggs-meat/how-to-wash-fresh-eggs-its-safer-not-to/

I don't wash any egg until I am ready to use it. Mainly my duck eggs are the ones that have some dirt or poo on them.
I think we have a good immune system since we take care of our birds and are around their environment daily. kinda like playing in the dirt. Just using common sense and washing our hands afterward.
Ducks are hardier than chickens but the salmonella risk would still be there if we cracked an egg with poo all over it.

 

[Everose]

Don't quote me on this, but I think I read somewhere that stores wash the eggs and then coat them in mineral oil, and that's why store bought eggs are shiny .

Idk if I'm just a weirdo but I feel safe eating a little bit of B12 or dirt or whatever they wanna call it, and for some reason chemically washed and coated eggs don't sound very tasty.

 

[nuthatched]

I could see that eating unpasteurized products could potentially cause salmonella BUT unless Doc told her to eat only pasteurized in shell eggs, the chances of salmonella in healthy home raised flocks is much lower than store eggs.

 

[Everose]

I also think I read that like 80% of store bought meat is contaminated with fecal matter. And don't get me started on lettuce!

I feel like the homegrown stuff is safer...but then again I didn't spend thousands of dollars and way too many years going to college to be a doctor.

 

[KaleIAm]

I don't recall where I read this, but there was an article about backyard eggs being potentially contaminated with lead and other heavy metals from painted sheds/reused materials/ingested metals foraged from the environment. The article claimed that a "sterile" factory farm environment produced safer food. I admit I didn't read it very well. Perhaps that is part of what the doctor is concerned about.

Personally I'm all for real food. Down with factory farms!

 

[Isadora]

Store-bought eggs can't touch backyard eggs as far as nutrition goes. Sure, there's no regulations as far as egg cleaning, but I would much rather eat a more nutritious egg from a happy duck / chicken than a less nutritious egg from a factory farmed bird.
Last I read up on it, which was about 2 years ago, only 10% of doctors even take a course in nutrition while in school for their medical degree. Personally, I wouldn't take nutrition advice from a medical doctor.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Store-bought eggs can't touch backyard eggs as far as nutrition goes. Sure, there's no regulations as far as egg cleaning, but I would much rather eat a more nutritious egg from a happy duck / chicken than a less nutritious egg from a factory farmed bird.
Last I read up on it, which was about 2 years ago, only 10% of doctors even take a course in nutrition while in school for their medical degree. Personally, I wouldn't take nutrition advice from a medical doctor.

Amen!