Gutter Oil Vice

Derek mead from vice.

Gutter oil vice.

Xiaofang pei is an associate dean and professor in the west china school of public health at sichuan university in chengdu china. She is also vice general secretary of the association of preventive medicine in sichuan. The company s head in china and a senior vice president resigned though walmart denies any link. Cooking oil is used heavily in chinese foo.

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. 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. On october 19th the prime. 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.

Even officials admit that detecting gutter oil can be tricky. China s food safety problems have no better symbol than the illegal and utterly disgusting problem of gutter oil. Enterprising collectors scoop up sewage from gutters outside restaurants filter it and then sell the oil. So assessing the risks of gutter oil in the kitchen could be a tough task for professionals.