Should hands be washed after touching the outside of an egg shell?(UK) Say someone was to remove some eggs from their box to place them in the fridge. Assume this is in Britain(where eggs aren't cleaned before sold, I believe).
Is there a risk of salmonella spreading if they do not wash their hands afterwards?

What if they washed their hands, but with cold water and no soap, then dried them on a towel?

Thanks,
Anthony.
Yes. When I was researching raw egg yolks for sauces, I discovered that salmonella lives mainly on outer shells, and less often in the yolk. So washing eggs with detergent before using egg yolks surely prevents troubles, and washing your hands after handling them would be common sense anyway in a kitchen. I am pretty sure however that not washing your hands in a private situation would never give you food poisoning. But if you handle hundreds of eggs and afterwards make a, say, mayonnaise using many egg yokes, that risk would be considerably higher.