Beware of Fake Egg in the market

The Consumers’ Association of Penang has received a complained from a housewife that she has been sold fake eggs. Fake eggs apparently nothing new around us in China eggs can be modulated by chemical materials. The fake eggs are created from a range of ingredients, including gelatin, benzoic acid, coagulating material, alum and 'magic water'. It also warns that eating the fake eggs could eventually cause dementia because of the alum used in their manufacture. According to a Xinhua News Agency article published on December 28, 2004, a mobile street vendor sold a Handan resident an egg that turned out to be 'man-made'. Examination revealed that the fake egg was made from calcium carbonate, starch, resin, gelatin and other chemical products. More...