The presence of a chitosan coating did not significantly affect
(pN0.05) the numbers of Salmonella on shell in Experiment 1 (Fig. 2b).
With both uncoated and coated eggs, outlierswith N2.00 log10 CFU/egg
were found. In Experiment 2, on the other hand, the numbers of
Salmonella on the coated eggshells were only slightly (but significantly,
pb0.05) lower than the numbers on uncoated eggshells. The uncoated
eggs had outliers above 2.00 log10 CFU/egg while those of the coated
eggs were only 0.70 log10 CFU/egg.