Egg sales getting back to normal

The fall in egg prices slowed over the weekend, with people shedding their fear of melamine contamination and the government vowing to take all possible steps to ensure food safety.

Egg prices in 20 provinces fell by 0.5 percent to 7.62 yuan ($1.1) a kg on Saturday, Xinhua News Agency reported. They had slid by 10 percent after Oct 26, when Hong Kong food authorities first detected eggs supplied by a mainland company contained high levels of melamine.

Last week, four brands of eggs were found to contain excessive amounts of the industrial chemical, with experts blaming chicken feed as the source of the contamination.