Chinese Street Food Vendors Use ‘Gutter Oil’ For Cooking

[Cebu HomePh]

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BY SHAYNE MARTINEZ
– OCTOBER 31, 2013POSTED IN: TRENDING NEWS, WORLD, WORLD NEWS

If you live in China, you may never buy street food ever again once you read this.There are some enterprising people in China that go through gutters, dumpsters, sewers or waste pipes, scrounging for animal parts, scooping anything that could possibly contain used oil. They in turn process this oil until it becomes recycled cooking oil, then sold to street vendors at much lower than market price compared to regular cooking oil. Because of the savings it presents, many Chinese street food vendors use gutter oil, instead of using ordinary cooking oil.Radio Free Asia produced a video that provides details on how vendors make gutter oil from scratch to sell for profit. The video begins with a couple scooping out grease out from sewage, collecting them in drum containers then sent to another location to be processed. The video ends showing unaware consumers eating the food cooked using this recycled oil that could potentially make them extremely sick.

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Production of gutter oil is illegal, and Chinese authorities are doing their best to stop these operations. They have warned street food vendors not to use the oil, for the potential hazard it brings to customers, since it contains large amounts of carcinogens or substances that cause cancer.Earlier this year, authorities uncovered a huge gutter oil production ring which used rotten animal parts, and boiling the fat to become oil.An estimated $1.6 million worth of these products are believed sold by black market producers and about 3,200 tons of this oil has been confiscated by the officers.

LINK: Chinese Street Food Vendors Use

[Irene Ramallite Lim]

good to know this information.thanks!

[Nefarian]

Oil may appear mixed(perception) with basuras but oil(chemically) doesn't mix with others liquids(AFAIK) but some chemicals harmful to the body MAY mix with oil. So if you chemically separate oil with other basuras then we can have a recycled oil.

[brian joshua]

mao unta ni sundon nato, resourcefulness ba. save mother earth.

[Code Talker]

ga import ba kaha mga lokal nga negosyante ani?

[ghostie2472]

Why am I not surprised..

[mybuuz]

kaon man gani ug fetus, unsa na kaha ang recycled fat/meat.
bisan unsaon pa, perting luora gyud.

[Nefarian]

Make it a habit to boycott products made in China.