Texas A&M AgNews
COLLEGE STATION, Texas — Dr. Craig Coufal hopes his egg-sanitizing machine may revolutionize the poultry industry.
Every year, the U.S. poultry industry incubates about 9 billion eggs to hatch the chicks that will become billions of pounds of meat, most of which was will be consumed domestically, according to Coufal, a Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service poultry specialist in College Station.
Eggs destined to hatch into broiler chicks are not normally washed, Coufal said. Instead, producers have accepted 1 percent or more losses from bacteria entering the shell and causing. . .

