Are half-boiled eggs safe to consume, especially for children?

Question

Especially during Bird flu

Answer 1

From the food and drug adminitration. see the last line.

Safe Egg Handling
To prevent infection with Salmonella enteritidis, follow these rules when buying, storing, preparing, serving, and eating eggs:

Don't eat raw eggs. This includes so-called "health-food" beverages made with raw eggs, and foods traditionally made with raw eggs, such as Caesar salad, hollandaise sauce, homemade mayonnaise, ice cream, eggnog, and cookie dough, unless the dish was made with a pasteurized liquid egg product or pasteurized in-shell eggs.

Egg mixtures made with an egg-milk base cooked to an internal temperature of 160 degrees Fahrenheit (71 degrees Celsius) are safe, too.

Use a thermometer to make sure the mixtures reach the correct temperature.

Buy eggs only if sold in the grocer's refrigerated case. Open the carton and check that the eggs are clean and uncracked.

Store eggs in their carton in the coldest part of the refrigerator, not in the door, and use within three to five weeks. The refrigerator should be set at 40 F (5 C) or slightly below.

Keep hard-cooked eggs, including dyed Easter eggs, in the refrigerator, not at room temperature. Use within one week.

Eggs should not be frozen in their shells. To freeze whole eggs, beat yolks and whites together. Egg whites also can be frozen by themselves. Use frozen eggs within one year.

Wash hands, utensils, equipment, and work areas with warm, soapy water before and after contact with eggs and egg-rich foods.

Don't leave cooked eggs out of the refrigerator for more than two hours. When baking or cooking, take out the eggs you need, and then return the carton to the refrigerator.

Cook eggs until yolks are firm.

Answer 2

Half Boiled eggs are definitely safer to consume even by children's. However as far as Bird Flu is concerned, No concrete evidence is available on it. Better to play safe and avoid consuming eggs in season of Bird Flu

Answer 3

Probably not for young children. Not because of bird flu, but because of risk of food poisoning.

Answer 4

If the white is cooked, and not runny, you shouldn't worry about any virus's.

Answer 5

i eat small animals

Answer 6

Only if they are pasteurized, if not no.

Answer 7

NO!!!