Gutter oil is an acceptable raw ingredient for products that are not for human consumption such as soap rubber bio fuel and cosmetics.
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China s food safety problems have no better symbol than the illegal and utterly disgusting problem of gutter oil.
Including plunging oil prices.
Gutter oil has been shown to be quite toxic and can cause diarrhea and abdominal pain.
The short documentary details the illegal production and sale of so called gutter oil a cooking oil made from restaurant sewer refuse and rotten animal fat that is refined and then sold mostly.
Cooking oil is used heavily in chinese foo.
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Most of china s gutter oil winds up in cheap restaurants and among street food vendors.
There are also reports that long term consumption of the oil can lead to stomach and liver cancer.
In the market gutter oil is being sold for merely 940 a ton compared with commercial grade oil which sells 1 500 that s savings around 560.