Gutter Oil Beijing

Even xinhua the government s news agency called gutter oil the most nerve jittery problem of late concerning food safety and one that showed a really nasty reality of chinese food today.

Gutter oil beijing.

Gutter oil is recycled out of waste oil collected from sources such as restaurant fryers sewers and grease traps then reprocessed and sold as cooking oil usually to street vendors and hole in the wall restaurants. Last year there was a report on oil being made. It can contain carcinogens and other toxins that are harmful when consumed by humans. Recycled oil from the gutters and sewers.

Come and see what gutter oil di gou you is all about and how to avoid it here i. I thought msg was used for unami. 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. It sprang from the ingenuity of chinese entrepreneurs who fished out used cooking oil from drains sewers and trash.

Dìgōu yóu or 餿水油. A significant amount of the waste oil ends up at illegal oil processing plants and is reprocessed and sold as cooking oil the report says. Gutter oil is one of the most revolting substances in the culinary pantheon. Beijing uses up 600 000 tons of cooking oil each year and may generate 15 percent or 90 000 tons of waste oil.

Afp getty images among the list of food safety scandals that have plagued china in recent. Beijing reuters china will intensify a crack down on the use of recycled gutter oil strengthening controls on oil origins and monitoring processing according to a document released by the. Police inspect illegal cooking oil seized during a crackdown in beijing on august 2 2010 photo. It can also be used to describe the processing of waste oil collected from sources such as restaurant fryers grease traps slaughterhouse waste and.

Just how big of an issue is this.