Yeh s gutter oil case was the first in a string of scandals with taiwanese food giant ting hsin group accused of selling oil intended for animal food just one month later.
Gutter oil taiwan.
The researchers said after purification of gutter oil it can reach the national level of edible oil standards but the cost is too high people cannot achieve.
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Accessed september 13 2014.
And branded as chuan tung fragrant lard oil.
Taiwan executive detained as gutter oil food safety scandal deepens sbs.
Wee department of industrial and systems engineering college of electrical engineering and computer science chung yuan christian university chung li taiwan correspondence weehm cycu edu tw.
Sōushuǐ yóu is a general term for oil that has been recycled it can be used to describe the practice of restaurants re using cooking oil that has already been fried before.
Recycled oil from the gutters and sewers.
It can also be used to describe the processing of waste oil collected from sources such as restaurant fryers grease traps slaughterhouse waste and.
Dìgōu yóu or 餿水油.
The company was accused of supplying firms with cheap recycled oil from kitchen waste and by products from leather plants and slaughterhouses and mixing it with lard before.
Apparently gutter oil looks no different than standard cooking oil after processing which is an incredible testament to chinese ingenuity in and of itself as i can not imagine any way to make a stew of sewer slop dead animal parts and the sludge of grease traps pass for anything resembling clean and clear golden cooking oil.
Just how big of an issue is this.
At least 1 256 businesses were affected in the gutter oil scandal.
The series of incidents first came to light on 4 september 2014 when it was discovered that tainted cooking oil was being produced by kaohsiung based company chang guann co.
Tainted cooking oil gutter oil was being produced by chang guann co.
According to the analysis the price of 1 ton of gutter oil was the 1700 1800 yuan while the price of 1 ton of rapeseed oil was 7000 8000 yuan.
Most of china s gutter oil winds up in cheap restaurants and among street food vendors.
In september 2014 taiwan s food and drug administration identified more than 900 restaurants and food plants that were using gutter oil supplied by chang guann.