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Contents

Basic Egg Knowledge

• The structure of an egg
• Shell portion
• White portion
• The structure of the shell 
• When hens lay eggs 
• The periodicity of egg-laying 
• Influence of light 
• Loss of broodiness 
• The egg formation process 
• Ovary 
• Oviduct 
• Cloaca 
• How eggs make their way into consumers’ hands 
• Types of chickens 
• Up to the birth of the chicken 
• Up to the production of eggs 
• Into the hands of consumers 
• Egg quality inspections 
• Definition of egg quality 
• Egg quality inspection technologies
• Egg shelf life 
• Trend in the number of cases of food poisoning 
• Basis for setting the shelf life 
• How to read a label 
• Handling eggs at home 
• Key points for household hygiene 
• Risks of breaking eggs in advance 

Examples of Eggshells

• Minor shell breakage 
• Pinholes 
• Semitransparent mottling 
• Spotted eggs 
• Glass-shelled eggs 
• Semitransparent lines 
• Long, semitransparent lines 
• Semitransparent short lines 
• Variations in shell color 
• Eggs with spots 
• Discolored eggs
• Pale eggs 
• Eggs with uneven coloring 
• Splashed eggs 
• Glossy eggs 
• Eggs with protrusions or surface roughness 
• Body-check eggs 
• Misshapen eggs 
• Paired eggs 
• White-banded eggs 
• Flattened eggs 
• Dirty eggs 

Examples of internal egg quality issues

• Meat spots
• Eggs with a pale yolk
• Cloudy albumen
• White spots on the surface of the yolk
• In-shell, physically scrambled eggs
• Ruptured yolk
• Wrinkled Yolk
• Eggs with spots on inside of shell
• White containing a cotton-like material
• Watery albumen
• Gelatine yolks
• Mottled yolks
• Yolk-less eggs
• Multiple yolk eggs
• Hen age and egg weight
• Eggs containing blood
• How ovulation works
• Eggs containing other eggs
• Follicles containing blood tumors
• Eggs containing cheese-like clumps
• Mixed rot eggs
• Rotten eggs
• Black rotten eggs
• Yellow or brown rotten eggs
• Fluorescent rotten eggs
• Microbes responsible for rotten eggs
• Eggs in which incubation stopped prematurely

Examples of boiled eggs

• Boiled eggs with green yolks
• Boiled eggs with brown albumen
• Hard-to-peel boiled eggs
• Boiled eggs with a white yolk
• Boiled eggs that contain only albumen
• Boiled eggs with red albumen
• Boiled eggs with brown albumen
• Boiled eggs with poorly defined yolks
• Fluorescent boiled eggs

Examples involving odor

• Fishy odor
• Ammonia odo
• Sulfur odor
• Eggs that acquire the odor of their storage environment
• Foul odor

Egg quality indicators

• Classifying egg quality (Japan)
• Egg quality indicators
• Shell quality indicators
• Albumen quality indexes
• Yolk quality indexes

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