Asian Gutter Oil

Gutter oil can contain bleaches and chemicals to alter its.

Asian gutter oil.

Beijing chinese authorities have battled to get rid of gutter oil in the country s kitchens for years cracking down on illegal oil production rings since. Chinese officials have arrested more than 100 people suspected of creating a new variety of recycled cooking oil concocted out of rotten animal parts the latest crackdown in the government s. 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. Food handling and hygiene practices are now under increased scrutiny including a renewed crackdown on the stomach churning practice during the chinese new year and spring festival period.

China has a known problem with counterfeit cooking oil made illegally by gangs. 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. The chinese are cracking down on gutter oiling cooking with oils and animal fatbergs scooped from the sewer in the wake of the deadly coronavirus outbreak. Gutter oil is a term used in china to describe illicit cooking oil that has already been used and is then processed by cleaning and filtering to be resold as a cheaper alternative to normal cooking oil.

The company was accused of supplying firms with cheap recycled oil from kitchen waste and by products from leather plants and slaughterhouses and mixing it with lard before. Not just inferior cooking oil relabelled as well regarded brands but made from waste oil and rotting animal parts. The sources of this oil are restaurant fryers sewers and leftover or used oil that is sold by restaurants. Dìgōu yóu or 餿水油.

In april chinese authorities uncovered a gutter oil production ring that spanned 13 cities and over 100 people who somehow acquired rotten animal parts and boiled down the fat into oil.