Red salted eggs banned in San Carlos
SAN CARLOS CITY—RED salted eggs sold by ambulant vendors in the city have been pulled out from the markets here after the City Health Office ordered a ban on their sale.
Dr. Edwin Guinto, city health officer, ordered the temporary ban on the sale and consumption of the red salted eggs after 23 persons were downed anew by food poisoning after eating the eggs.
Most of the victims separately complained of stomach pains, loose bowel movement and vomiting and were brought to the Pangasinan Provincial Hospital in Barangay Bolingit for treatment.
Guinto ordered his sanitary inspectors to enforce the ban in all the markets, sari-sari stores and groceries to make sure that no more food poisoning case will arise.
Sample of the salted eggs pulled out are being subjected to laboratory examination to determine the cause of the poisoning.
The Provincial Health Office (PHO) has joined the San Carlos City CHO in investigating where the salted eggs being sold in the markets of San Carlos City were coming from.
Last Friday, Dr. Ana de Guzman, provincial health officer, said they have already established that the salted eggs being sold in San Carlos City were sourced from one dealer in San Manuel town.
She said normally the life span of a salted egg is two weeks and surmised that the eggs unloaded to the markets of San Carlos were old stocks.
De Guzman said all the poison victims in San Carlos City were found to have been infected by salmonella bacterium in their bodies that caused vomiting and severed stomachache.
The patients are residents of barangays Palaming, Apunit, Apayar, San Juan, and San Pedro in San Carlos City.
Last June, at least 30 people have also been victims of food poisoning after eating salted eggs in the province.
De Guzman warned consumers against buying eggs that have cracks or emit foul smell. (LVM/Johanne Macob)
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