Gutter Oil Taiwan

Accessed september 13 2014.

Gutter oil taiwan.

Chang guann s gutter oil scandal 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. Taiwan executive detained as gutter oil food safety scandal deepens sbs. Yeh s gutter oil case was the first in a string of scandals with taiwanese food giant ting hsin group accused of selling oil intended for animal food just one month later.

A tainted oil scandal in taiwan could result in a shortage of groceries and could even affect large international companies including starbucks. Most of china s gutter oil winds up in cheap restaurants and among street food vendors. Tainted cooking oil gutter oil was being produced by chang guann co. At least 1 256 businesses were affected in the gutter oil scandal.

The worst offender was sentenced to 7 years in prison. And branded as chuan tung fragrant lard oil. In a subsequent investigation 22 people were arrested for involvement in a recycling oil ring over 10 years based in taipei. Once collected this slop is then filtered mixed together cooked up and then sold to unscrupulous restaurants around china.

It was distributed towards the downstream food chain taiwan executive detained 2014 taiwan executive detained. The series of incidents first came to light on 4 september 2014 when it was discovered that tainted cooking oil was being produced by kaohsiung based company chang guann co. Taiwan s food and drug administration has announced. In recent years illegally recycled oil has emerged as a serious food safety concern in china where it is known colloquially as gutter oil the substance is dangerous not just because of poor.