Conventional methods for detection of salmonellae, including SE, from eggs take 5–7 days and are labor-intensive, involving isolation of the organism using pre-enrichment as well as selective enrichment procedures and serological confirmation tests. Detection of small numbers of SE in inoculated pools of egg contents was successful using direct plating of incubated egg pools onto agar plates, although sensitivity was enhanced with enrichment (Gast, 1993). Supplementing pools of egg contents with iron in the form of ferrous sulphate and concentrated enrichment broth has been suggested to improve detection of SE from raw eggs without using enrichment broth (Gast and Beard, 1992; Cudjoe et al., 1994; Gast and Holt, 1998).