China's 'Gutter Oil'

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Gutter oil
Gutter oil (Chinese: 地沟油; pinyin: dìgōu yóu, or 餿水油; sōushuǐ yóu) is a term used in mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan to describe illicit cooking oil which has been recycled from waste oil collected from sources such as restaurant fryers, grease traps, slaughterhouse waste and sewage from sewer drains.[1][2]

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Reprocessing of used cooking oil is often very rudimentary; techniques include filtration, boiling, refining, and the removal of some adulterants.[3] It is then packaged and resold as a cheaper alternative to normal cooking oil. Another version of gutter oil uses discarded animal parts, animal fat and skins, internal organs, and expired or otherwise low-quality meat, which is then cooked in large vats in order to extract the oil. Used kitchen oil can be purchased for between $859 and $937 per ton, while the cleaned and refined product can sell for $1,560 per tonne.[4] Thus there is great economic incentive to produce and sell gutter oil.

It is estimated that up to one in every ten lower-market restaurant meals consumed in China is prepared with gutter oil.[5] This high prevalence is due to what Feng Ping of the China Meat Research Center has made clear: "The illegal oil shows no difference in appearance and indicators after refining and purification because the law breakers are skillful at coping with the established standards."[6]


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gutter_oil

 

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You may never eat street food in China again after watching this video

By Max Fisher October 28, 2013

This still from the below video shows a Chinese restaurant using cooking oil. (YouTube)
China's food safety problems have no better symbol than the illegal and utterly disgusting problem of gutter oil. Cooking oil is used heavily in Chinese food, so some street vendors and hole-in-the-wall restaurants buy cheap, black market oil that's been recycled from garbage. You read that correctly. Enterprising men and women will go through dumpsters, trash bins, gutters and even sewers, scooping out liquid or solid refuse that contains used oil or animal parts. Then they process that into cooking oil, which they sell at below-market rates to food vendors who use it to cook food that can make you extremely sick.




This video, produced by Radio Free Asia, shows in excruciating detail how a couple of gutter oil vendors go about their work. It starts with the couple scooping sewage out of the ground, and it ends with unwitting Chinese consumers chowing down on the end product:

To reiterate, this is illegal, something that Chinese authorities are trying to stop and not used by all street vendors. But it's also thought to be widespread. Being reprocessed garbage and sewage, gutter oil contains all sorts of untold carcinogens. Many of the operations, like the one shown in the video, are small-time. But there's enough money to be made that some producers go much bigger.

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. The sting, which came after a five-month investigation, yielded 3,200 tons of the stuff; authorities estimated the black-market producers had already sold a stunning $1.6 million worth of their product.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...s-video/?utm_term=.40fc792554c6&noredirect=on

 

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Video: Watch Chinese food vendor collect gutter oil for cooking
By
Laura Zhang
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November 3, 2017
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In a video uploaded by Shanghaiist on 31 October, a woman in a white hat was seen collecting gutter oil, allegedly for a food business in China.

Speaking in Mandarin, a woman, presumably the person taking the video, was heard questioning the “oil digger” in anger, and calling out for people to be aware of such a phenomenon.

Camera woman: Look over here, this lady is telling me that the gutter oil being collected is approved by the authority . I’ve no idea which authority that is. They even said they’ve gone through proper procedures to attain approval. I hope relevant authorities would conduct a check on them. For those who’ve viewed this video, please help to share around.

Oil digger: It’s useless even if you report to the police!

Camera woman: Look at their outrageous behaviour! Those who see the video, please help to spread the positive energy.




In China, using gutter oil as illicit cooking oil used to be a widespread practice in food industry. The recycled and processed oil from stinky garbage is sold at below-market rates to food vendors, and is then made into renowned fried dumplings, egg rolls, fried wontons that attract long waiting lines.

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 2011. However, many oil vendors still manage to get away with their shady deals, especially in rural regions.

While street food cooked by gutter oil is highly cancerous, many people, especially teens are still addicted to it, with some jokingly describing it as “tasty”.

Some netizen makes sarcastic remarks on the resemblance of such phenomenon to the country’s economic system.

http://theindependent.sg/video-watch-chinese-food-vendor-collect-gutter-oil-for-cooking/

 

[Jameson Emoni]

This is a classic case of reality overpowering propaganda with one quick jab.

 

[Mikesingh]

How bloody disgusting!!

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[Shredder]

What else can you expect from them? They eat bloody everything. Disgusting dirty people.

 

[HariPrasad-1]

What else can you expect from them? They eat bloody everything. Disgusting dirty people.

Actually how can Frogs and dogs be cooked with ghee or Good edible oil. They do not match. You need gutter oil to fry that.

 

[The Ultranationalist]

Chinese can earn huge revenues by exporting it to their concubine aka pakistan. Gutter oil will be a big hit in the shithole country.