Counterfeit eggs?
Recently I came across a blog post about counterfeit eggs in China. Although it been sometime since the story emerge, fear of counterfeit eggs reincarnated in Thailand. According to hoax-slayer the status of the counterfeit eggs is Unsubstantiated. However this story is ridiculous enough to share for you to read.
According to the story the man-made eggs are cheaper than real eggs, however it ingredients are harmful to human health. Alum that is known to cause Alzheimer’s disease.
At first the story seem to be credible as it is from China and there is a brief report from Xinhuanet about a raid of fake eggs in China. However natural eggs these days are cheap enough that it is almost unthinkable for some one to produce a counterfeit and still make big profit.
There are website and video on Youtube that claim to show step by step instruction to make fake eggs. But the instructions are not clear enough to understand, they only show some yellowish stuff that look like yolk.
Although the story seem unbelievable, hoax-slayer did not rule out that the incident did occur as described. But even if it did happen, there is no evidence to suggest that making and selling artificial eggs in China is a widespread and well-documented practice that is so advanced that it even has fake egg production classes available. If true, it seems quite likely that such an interesting story would have garnered the attention of various news outlets around the world.
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