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Cold storage of shell eggs.

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Title Cold storage of shell eggs.
 
Creator Mathur, P. B.
Kirpal Singh, K.
Kapur, N. S.
 
Subject 28 Meat, Fish & Poultry
08 Refrigeration and Freezing
 
Description EGG is a highly nutritive article of food and
the losses due to faulty methods of storage in
India are tremendous. Three major considerations
in the cold storage of eggs are: (1)
storage temperature, (2) relative humidity, and
(3) protection from materials which may impart
undesirable odours to eggs because of the
porous nature of the shells. To overcome the
last mentioned difficulty separate chambers
should be used for egg storage and nothing
else should be stored along with them.
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Percentage of Sodium Silicate solution.
FIG. 1
Effect of treatment with various strengths of sodium
silicate solution on the storage life of eggs at the Mysore
room temperature (73-89°F).
Miller (1) has recommended a temperature of
32-35°F and a R.H. of 80 per cent for the
cold storage of untreated shell eggs. Rose
and Wright (2) have recommended a temperature
of 29-31°F and a R.H. of 85-90 per cent
for the cold storage of untreated shell eggs.
It may be mentioned here that as far as the
authors are aware no work on the cold storage of
eggs, from different local and acclimatized breeds
of poultry, has so far been reported in India.
In the present investigations an attempt was
made to determine the optimum cold storage
conditions for eggs obtained from local and
foreign breeds of poultry. A number of treatments,
viz., dipping in solutions of sodium
silicate, lime, dipping in liquid paraffin and
waxing was tried.
 
Date 1953
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://ir.cftri.com/3503/1/Bulletin_of_CFTRI_1953_2_10_257-258.pdf
Mathur, P. B. and Kirpal Singh, K. and Kapur, N. S. (1953) Cold storage of shell eggs. Bulletin of Central Food Technological Research Institute, 2 (10). pp. 257-258.