compared Salmonella recovery by the swab, crush-and-rub after swabbing, and crush-and-rub only methods for table eggs inoculated with 2 × 107 cells of Salmonella. They observed a difference of 3.2 log10 cfu on 3.14 cm2 eggshell in Salmonella recovery between those eggs that were crushed-and-rubbed after swabbing (3.3 log10 cfu on 3.14 cm2 eggshell) and those eggs that were crushed-and-rubbed with no previous swabbing (6.5 log10 cfu on 3.14 cm2 eggshell). Kawasaki et al. (2008) also compared the rinse method with the crush-and-rub method for APC recovery from separate whole eggshells (processed table eggs) and yielded different results from the present study, which used nest-clean broiler hatching eggs. When rinsed, the table eggs had approximately 3.1 log10 cfu/eggshell aerobic bacteria, whereas when eggs were crush-and-rubbed with no previous rinse, the recovery was greater, at 4.3 log10 cfu/eggshell of aerobic bacteria. The 1.2 log10 cfu/eggshell lower recovery for the rinse method than for the crush-and-rub method may be attributed in part to the use of processed table eggs