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.
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Tips for buying frozen foods
- Large amounts of ice crystals, discolouration, foul smell
- If packaging is soiled, leaking or damaged
- If food has thawed.
