Egg Product Diversification
Product Type: Poultry – Eggs
Stage: Processing & Packaging
Problem: Wasted egg parts and loss of unsold eggs
Solution: Diversify eggs products, redirect egg parts to value-added production
- Alkalized egg can be produced from unsold stock and kept due to longer shelf-life. Process involves soaking eggs in alkaline solution (sodium hydroxide), mechanical brushing of egg surface, and drying at low temperature.
- Eggs broke during conveyor transport in processing can be repurposed for animal feed or fertilizer. Loss rate in processing is about 2%.
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Source: Dr. Wen-Shyan Chen, Livestock Research Institute, Council of Agriculture, Chinese Taipei