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.
Gutter oil beijing.
Recycled oil from the gutters and sewers.
Gutter oil is recycled out of waste oil collected from sources such as restaurant fryers sewers and grease traps then reprocessed and sold as cooking oil usually to street vendors and hole in the wall restaurants.
The company motioneco has launched an initiative in nanjing jiangsu province in june to collect waste cooking oil and gutter oil to be converted into sustainable low carbon green fuel for use.
Just how big of an issue is this.
Come and see what gutter oil di gou you is all about and how to avoid it here i.
Of which 60 000 to 70 000 tons can be collected.
Last year there was a report on oil being made.
Afp getty images among the list of food safety scandals that have plagued china in recent.
Gutter oil is one of the most revolting substances in the culinary pantheon.
It can contain carcinogens and other toxins that are harmful when consumed by humans.
It sprang from the ingenuity of chinese entrepreneurs who fished out used cooking oil from drains sewers and trash.
The practice is not new and while the government has banned gutter oil it has not been able to eradicate the practice the atlantic reported today.
Even xinhua the government s news agency called gutter oil the most nerve jittery problem of late concerning food safety and one that showed a really nasty reality of chinese food today.
It can also be used to describe the processing of waste oil collected from sources such as restaurant fryers grease traps slaughterhouse waste and.
I thought msg was used for unami.
A significant amount of the waste oil ends up at illegal oil processing plants and is reprocessed and sold as cooking oil the report says.
Police inspect illegal cooking oil seized during a crackdown in beijing on august 2 2010 photo.