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Gutter oil vice.
Producing and selling gutter oil is illegal in china and over the past few years the authorities have been sweeping the country shutting down gutter oil processing plants as though they were meth labs and busting up their distribution networks as though they were narcotic rings.
Waste cooking oil or gutter oil often makes headlines in china for grim reasons.
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Enterprising collectors scoop up sewage from gutters outside restaurants filter it and then sell the oil.
So assessing the risks of gutter oil in the kitchen could be a tough task for professionals.
Yeh wen hsiang chairman of chang guann who has been jailed for 20 years over the gutter oil scandal made a public apology and drank a cup of his company s cooking oil at the height of the.
Cooking oil is used heavily in chinese foo.
On october 19th the prime.
Even officials admit that detecting gutter oil can be tricky.
Chinese restaurant staff jailed for cooking with gutter oil more than 10 people working at the eateries in wenzhou in zhejiang province were given sentences ranging from eight months to just.
Xiaofang pei is an associate dean and professor in the west china school of public health at sichuan university in chengdu china.
China s food safety problems have no better symbol than the illegal and utterly disgusting problem of gutter oil.