A bad yolk? Turkish eggs may pose health risk

"Fresh farm eggs" proclaim the labels on egg cartons. Tnuva egg cartons, for example, show a hen standing on a green patch with a nearby blue tractor hinting at the blue and white - therefore local - provenance of the product. The cartons containing eggs supplied by M. Lesser show a hen basking in warm sunlight, surrounded by greenery.

From the cartons, one would think that the eggs were laid maybe a day or two earlier on some pastoral Galilee kibbutz. The truth is that Israel has imported hundreds of millions of eggs in recent years, 62% of them from Turkey.