Gutter Oil Beijing

Just how big of an issue is this.

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. Beijing uses up 600 000 tons of cooking oil each year and may generate 15 percent or 90 000 tons of waste oil. 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. I thought msg was used for unami.

It can also be used to describe the processing of waste oil collected from sources such as restaurant fryers grease traps slaughterhouse waste and. 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. Of which 60 000 to 70 000 tons can be collected. The practice is not new and while the government has banned gutter oil it has not been able to eradicate the practice the atlantic reported today.

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. Police inspect illegal cooking oil seized during a crackdown in beijing on august 2 2010 photo. 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. Dìgōu yóu or 餿水油.

Last year there was a report on oil being made. It sprang from the ingenuity of chinese entrepreneurs who fished out used cooking oil from drains sewers and trash. Come and see what gutter oil di gou you is all about and how to avoid it here i. Afp getty images among the list of food safety scandals that have plagued china in recent.

Recycled oil from the gutters and sewers.