Last week, the Food Standards Agency (FSA) announced changes to its advice about how consumers can eat eggs. Now, FSA says that it is safe for infants, children, pregnant women and elderly people to eat raw or lightly cooked eggs that are produced under the British Lion Code of Practice.
The revised advice is based on new scientific evidence. Previously, infants, children, pregnant women, elderly people, those vulnerable to infection and other health issues as the result of foodborne illness were not advised to consume raw or runny eggs. That now outdated advice was based on the fact that eggs contain Salmonella bacteria, which can cause food poisoning.