An overview of chinese food safety issues and policies.
Gutter oil usa.
China has a known problem with counterfeit cooking oil made illegally by gangs.
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.
Food safety has become a focus of attention worldwide.
Eating food cooked with gutter oil can be poisonous.
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Gutter oil can contain bleaches and chemicals to alter its.
The consequence though is putting the public s health at great risk.
Dìgōu yóu or 餿水油.
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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.
Once collected this slop is then filtered mixed together cooked up and then sold to unscrupulous restaurants around china.
This is generally known as gutter oil chinese pinyin dìgōu yóu simplified characters 地沟油 traditional characters 地溝油.
Most of china s gutter oil winds up in cheap restaurants and among street food vendors.
It can also be used to describe the processing of waste oil collected from sources such as restaurant fryers grease traps slaughterhouse waste and.
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.
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Beijing chinese authorities have battled to get rid of gutter oil in the country s kitchens for years cracking down on illegal oil production rings since.
The same thing happens in china where enterprising criminals steal fat from sewers and grease traps clean it up only minimally and then sell the resulting gutter oil on the black market.