No problem with eggs produced in Bengal, tells Mamata

"Eat only the eggs produced in Bengal. There is no problem with them," Banerjee said.

She said :"Bengal will become self-sufficient in egg production. We will set up poultries for ducks like we have for hens."

A family of Kolkata's Satoshpur area on Saturday claimed that they had found a suspected artificial plastic-made egg, which was brought from branded retailer chain, Spencer's, reports said.

According to reports, while they were cooking the egg, smell of burning plastic was coming out from it.

The family informed the local administration and has sent the egg to Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) for laboratory tests.

Meanwhile, the nephew of CPI-M leader Rabin Deb, Sumit Deb, was interrogated for hours by city police's enforcement branch on Saturdayafternoon.

"After interrogating Shamim Ansari, a trader from Kolkata's Karaya area who has been arrested for allegedly selling artificial plastic eggsand currently in police custody, we came to know about several egg distributors and one of them, Sumit Deb, was quizzed today," an official of enforcement branch told IBNS.

Meanwhile, allegations of such plastic eggs are being reported from separate locations of West Bengal, including Burdwan, Hooghly, East Medinipur and South 24 Parganas, according to reports.

However, the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has opened two control-room numbers for residents of the metro city to inform about such suspected artificial eggs: (033) 2286-1212 and (033) 2286-1218.