Melamine turns up in Chinese chicken eggs in Hong Kong.

Hong Kong said last week it would test meat, vegetables and processed food
for melamine, a move that underlines concerns about food safety in the former
British colony which returned to Chinese rule in 1997.

Mr. Yeung is worried about his eggs.

He read from local papers that melamine, an industrial chemical found in
tainted milk formula, turned up in Chinese chicken eggs.

EGG TRADER, MR. YEUNG,
SAYING:
"Of course I am worried. Whenever there are problems people do
not eat eggs. When people eat less, I have less business."

Yeung has a good reason to worry.

Last month, China saw four children die and thousands of others made ill
from drinking milk formula adulterated with melamine.

The plastic-making industrial chemical was added to cheat quality tests in
milk.

Mainland eggs might have melamine but restaurants can't stop serving
eggs.

Restaurant owners had to get eggs from other baskets.

RESTAURANT OWNER,
CHEUNG HOI-TONG, SAYING:
"We think, we will use American eggs, the white American
eggs."

Premier Wen Jiabao vowed last week that China would do all it could to
bring the quality of Chinese food products up to international standard.

But tests found melamine in a variety of Chinese-made products from milk
and chocolate bars to yoghurt exported around the world.

But Hong Kong resident October Chan isn't fretting over the findings.

RESTAURANT CUSTOMER,
OCTOBER CHAN, SAYING:
"(I am having) Ham and egg sandwich. Ice milk tea. Milk and
eggs, there is nothing to fear."

Kitty Bu reporting for Reuters.