At the end of last week, private individuals sounded the alarm that thousands of Spanish eggs had been dumped in the forest outside Eskilstuna in at least two places, which Eskilstuna-Kuriren was the first to report.
The egg dumping has been reported to both the police and the municipality's environmental office.
Maria Hansson, unit manager within the food and alcohol supervision unit, says that this is not the first time she has encountered Spanish eggs.
- On August 27, we were out for regular inspections in various stores.
Eggs from Spain were found in several places that did not have a certificate that they had been tested for salmonella, she says.
Issued sales bans
Six stores were banned from selling the eggs and the environmental office has carried out follow-up checks to ensure that the ban is complied with.
Customers may have had time to buy the paperless eggs before they were banned, but there is no information that anyone has become ill from them.
- The stores have stated that they have been contacted by a person who drove around and sold eggs from a car belonging to a wholesale company, says Maria Hansson.
The tracks lead to another municipality
The wholesale company is believed to belong in another municipality, and she has therefore informed the environmental office in that municipality that there may be uncontrolled eggs there.
It is not certain that the eggs in the forest come from the same wholesaler.
But Maria Hansson will still contact the county administrative board to inform that there is a risk that wild animals have eaten the dumped eggs, and that it may be that they have not been tested for salmonella.
At the same time, she wants to be clear that there does not have to be anything wrong with the eggs at all.
- It is not certain that there is salmonella in them, even if they have not been tested, she says.