Vadodara: A resident of Panigate area of the city has approached the Vadodara Municipal Corporation (VMC) food safety department with a complaint that he was sold a synthetic egg by a local vendor. While they didn’t buy his claim, the food safety officials may check egg suppliers in the city in the coming days.
The man opened an egg and found a film inside it which was hard to break and looked like plastic. A video, claimed to be of the ‘plastic’ egg also started making rounds in the social media. While the incident is said to be of Wednesday night, VMC officials received a formal complaint from the man only on Thursday evening.
“Our officials will check the quality of eggs that are being sold in the area. The complainant can also get the eggs he bought to be checked in our laboratory,” said an official of the food safety department. The official, however, added that they had not heard of any such incident in the city earlier.
The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has in the past clarified that it was highly unlikely that such eggs were being sold in the country. FSSAI has also circulated a detailed note in this regard. Sources said that a concern could be the freshness of the eggs that were sold to the complainant.
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