Raw eggs may contain salmonella bacteria. That is why it is important to not eat raw or undercooked eggs, and to refrigerate eggs in their original carton rather than on the refrigerator door.
Salmonella doesn’t make a chicken sick but it can live in their bodies and get into uncracked whole eggs. Eating raw eggs, raw cookie dough or batter, Caesar salad dressing, or health drinks containing raw eggs could make you sick. Thoroughly cooking eggs kills all bacteria. In 1998 the USDA set up the Egg Safety Task force with the goal of reducing salmonella outbreaks by 50% by 2010. The numbers have gone down yearly. Some brands are also now producing pasteurized raw eggs in the shell which reduces bacteria a good deal.
