Gutter Oil Vice

Even officials admit that detecting gutter oil can be tricky.

Gutter oil vice.

Derek mead from vice. The company s head in china and a senior vice president resigned though walmart denies any link. Chinese restaurant staff jailed for cooking with gutter oil more than 10 people working at the eateries in wenzhou in zhejiang province were given sentences ranging from eight months to just. Cooking oil is used heavily in chinese foo.

China s food safety problems have no better symbol than the illegal and utterly disgusting problem of gutter oil. The ministry of health was responsible for food safety risk monitoring and assessment food safety standards food safety information disclosure food inspection agency qualification and inspection norms investigation and handling of major food safety accidents such as clenbuterol incident of shuanghui gutter oil scandal plasticizer. Visit our forum at. Waste cooking oil or gutter oil often makes headlines in china for grim reasons.

On october 19th the prime. Enterprising collectors scoop up sewage from gutters outside restaurants filter it and then sell the oil. Producing and selling gutter oil is illegal in china and over the past few years the authorities have been sweeping the country shutting down gutter oil processing plants as though they were meth labs and busting up their distribution networks as though they were narcotic rings. Yeh wen hsiang chairman of chang guann who has been jailed for 20 years over the gutter oil scandal made a public apology and drank a cup of his company s cooking oil at the height of the.