Gutter Oil Taiwan

Once collected this slop is then filtered mixed together cooked up and then sold to unscrupulous restaurants around china.

Gutter oil taiwan.

Taiwan s food and drug administration has announced. Tainted cooking oil gutter oil was being produced by chang guann co. In recent years illegally recycled oil has emerged as a serious food safety concern in china where it is known colloquially as gutter oil the substance is dangerous not just because of poor.

Yeh s gutter oil case was the first in a string of scandals with taiwanese food giant ting hsin group accused of selling oil intended for animal food just one month later. Taiwan executive detained as gutter oil food safety scandal deepens sbs. At least 1 256 businesses were affected in the gutter oil scandal. A tainted oil scandal in taiwan could result in a shortage of groceries and could even affect large international companies including starbucks.

The taiwanese lard giant which says it was unaware that the oil was gutter oil in turn sold 51 981 cartons of oil to hundreds of food companies around asia according to taiwan s food and drug. Chang guann s gutter oil scandal in september 2014 taiwan s food and drug administration identified more than 900 restaurants and food plants that were using gutter oil supplied by chang guann. In a subsequent investigation 22 people were arrested for involvement in a recycling oil ring over 10 years based in taipei. Most of china s gutter oil winds up in cheap restaurants and among street food vendors.

Yes gutter oil 地沟油 dìgōu yóu pretty much really comes from gutters well sewer drains grease traps slaughterhouse waste depots disposed of meat animal fat skins innards and restaurant oil dumps. Accessed september 13 2014. The first documented case of gutter oil in taiwan was reported in 1985. It was distributed towards the downstream food chain taiwan executive detained 2014 taiwan executive detained.