Dairy Industry in Britain - An old magazine photograph showing Welsh 'Candlers' inspecting eggs for freshness by examining them in front of electric light bulbs (originally candles) in the days before more modern techniques were established. Today Candling is a method used in embryology to study the growth and development of an embryo inside an egg. The method uses a bright light source behind the egg to show details through the shell, and is so called because the original sources of light used were candles

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