Tips for buying eggs meat poultry and fish

Tips for buying eggs, meat, poultry and fish

• Eggs with dirty and discolored shells, or soiled with droppings.

• Eggs with cracked shells

• Eggs that float in water

• Broken eggs with blood spot/meat spot/foul odour

• Fish with flesh on which depression remains when pressed with a finger or flesh that becomes soft and falls apart or flabby flesh that separates from the bones

• Fish with grey or green gills

• Fish with dull, sunken eyes

• Fish with foul odour and very few scales left on the fish, if the fish is scaly

• Meat and poultry with tough, fibrous flesh with more fat and bone, discoloration, putrid smell, slimy appearance and touch and damaged packaging.

Tips for buying eggs meat poultry and fish

Tips for buying frozen foods

• Large amounts of ice crystals, discolouration, foul smell

• If packaging is soiled, leaking or damaged

• If food has thawed.