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Hydrogen mineral disinfectant farming (HMDF) applies hydrogen mineral disinfectant water which is containing hypochlorous acid component in the production quality and high yield agricultural produce. Hydrogen mineral disinfectant (HMD) water has been found to have antimicrobial effects and is used in washing eggs, processing meat and the control of disease in livestock. In poultry, it increases body weight of livestock and also reduces smell in the farm. Endotoxin or lipopolysaccharide is part of outer membrane architecture of gram-negative bacteria, and a common food contaminant, which poses great health risk to humans, characterized by sepsis, shock or even death. Endotoxin detection and removal is an important part of the industrial food, pharmaceutical and medical equipment production process. Our study aims to compare the endotoxin levels of eggs produced by HMDF and eggs on the market. The limulus amoebocyte lysate test was used to determine the level of endotoxin in whole liquid eggs from HMDF (n = 12) and eggs from the market (n = 12), randomly sampled. Analysis of variance followed by multiple comparison test was used to analyze the data. As a result, The endotoxin level was significantly low in the experimental eggs (0.25 EU/mL) compared to the contol (10 EU/mL) (p >0.005). This result suggests that the application of HMDF in egg production could reduce risk associated with endotoxin-induced health problems.