J. Clarke:

> Chicken temperature is 108F. The normal condition of an egg in nature is
> to be inside or underneath a chicken for 21 days. If you want fertilized
> eggs to hatch in an incubator you keep it at about 100 degrees F. If the
> conditions inside an egg were such that toxins sufficient to cause food
> poisoning developed in 24 hours at chicken temperature then the chicken
> would long since have become extinct.

Well, chickens are obviously not affected by salmonella the way people are.

Bob