Asian Gutter Oil

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.

Asian gutter oil.

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. Dìgōu yóu or 餿水油. 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 sources of this oil are restaurant fryers sewers and leftover or used oil that is sold by restaurants.

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. Not just inferior cooking oil relabelled as well regarded brands but made from waste oil and rotting animal parts. 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.

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. This is generally known as gutter oil chinese pinyin dìgōu yóu simplified characters 地沟油 traditional characters 地溝油. China has a known problem with counterfeit cooking oil made illegally by gangs. All the answers have been accurate but even if you ve been eating gutter oil you have it s not necessarily that which is giving you diarrhea it could cross contamination of meat and vegetables unclean meat and vegetables unsanitary utensils or even more likely all of the above plus more.

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.