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“Now, people who eat omelettes on the roadside may get frightened as they think they’re eating plastic omelettes.” Parrikar said, “There can’t be plastic eggs. Why would someone spend money to duplicate something that costs Rs 4 and that is made in China?”Earlier, Congress MLA Aleixo Reginaldo Lourenco showed up in the House with three eggs which he claimed were plastic.I have brought plastic eggs since the CM challenged me,” Lourenco said during Zero Hour to make a point that plastic eggs do exist. The 'plastic eggs' issue comes close on the heels of the formalin-in-fish issue that rocked the state and led the Parrikar government to ban import of fish from other states till August 3.“Common sense tells me that this (manufacturing of plastic eggs) is not an economically sustainable activity,” Parrikar said, and provided a copy of the results to MLAs. PORVORIM: Chief minister Manohar Parrikar on Tuesday said that the scare created about plastic eggs being sold in the market was a hoax, and that a sample tested by the Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) was found safe for human consumption..