China Street Food Gutter Oil

China s food safety problems have no better symbol than the illegal and utterly disgusting problem of gutter oil.
China street food gutter oil. Gutter oil is reported to account for one tenth of cooking oil in china according to experts cited by rfa. It can also be used to describe the processing of waste oil collected from sources such as restaurant fryers grease traps slaughterhouse waste and fatbergs. Gutter oil is a general term for oil that has been recycled. Cooking oil is used heavily in chinese food so some street vendors and.
In china gutter oil has been used to create products like soap rubber bio fuel plastics rooftops and cosmetics. In the city of shanghai it was reported that over. It can be used to describe the practice of restaurants re using cooking oil that has already been fried before. Besides being downright disgusting the oil is also said to contain carcinogens and other toxins.