Health Concerns

Local Egg Inspectors Find Some Gross Ones In Chinatown

One inspector tossing eggs in Chinatown last week.
One inspector tossing eggs in Chinatown last week. Photo: Lea Suzuki/Chron

San Francisco has two state-funded agriculture inspectors whose main responsibility is touring the city and inspecting our eggs, in every grocery store and wholesale outlet that sells them. Mostly they’re checking for sell-by dates and examining them for cracks and quality, but also they’re trying to protect us from Salmonella by tossing out boxes of filthy eggs covered in manure, feathers, blood, and whathaveyou like they found in a number of unlabeled boxes in a Chinatown market last week. (The Chron, you see, published a little piece about the inspectors in the Easter edition of the paper. And the offending store was Produce Land on Clay Street, by the way.) [Chron]

Local Egg Inspectors Find Some Gross Ones In Chinatown