Poultry eggs, pickled in vinegar and stored upto 3 months at ambient a
nd refrigeration temperatures, were rated moderately acceptable to ver
y acceptable during the entire storage. Standard bacterial plate count
s were below 10(5) in samples stored at ambient temperature and neglig
ible in refrigerated samples. Yeast and mould counts were absent in bo
th samples, while pH remained unchanged. The cost of production of pic
kled eggs packed in HDPE bags was approximately Rs. 25/20 eggs.