evidence: A video has been circulating widely on social media showing two women pouring a viscous white substance into clear egg-shaped plastic containers. The video has sparked rumours that the Chinese are manufacturing plastic eggs with the aim of tricking and even poisoning unsuspecting customers. After plastic rice and plastic fish… now it’s plastic eggs! "Yuk, God save us!" reads the caption to a video published on the Ivorian Facebook page Flash Info Abidjan on April 29, referencing other plastic food rumours that have swept the internet. Since its publication on this site, the video has been viewed close to 8,000 times. Several different people reached out to the FRANCE 24 Observers team about this topic and asked us to investigate. [...] All of these posts claim that this video is proof that the Chinese are making fake plastic eggs meant for human consumption. Be warned, these posts tell readers.