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It would appear that many of the dubious factories in China are run by mafia.
Anyone here fancy made in china potato chips? Fried in gutter oil.
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/201...is-found-dead/
Anyone here fancy made in china potato chips? Fried in gutter oil.
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/201...is-found-dead/
September 20, 2011, 3:18 pmChinese Journalist Following ‘Gutter Oil’ Scandal Is Found Dead
By J. DAVID GOODMANA Chinese journalist reporting on a scandal surrounding illegal cooking oil was found stabbed to death this week, the journalism advocacy group Reporters Without Borders said on Tuesday.
The reporter, Li Xiang, was stabbed more than 10 times as he returned to his home in the city of Luoyang on Monday, the official English-language China Daily reported.
Mr. Li had been following the story of restaurants illegally recycling cooking oil, a dangerous health hazard to diners, and had written about it on his personal blog before his death. Though he had never published any reports for his employer, Luoyang Television, news reports cited Chinese bloggers who said his death was likely connected to his investigation of the oil scandal.
In his last post on his Twitter-like microblogging page, Mr. Li wrote that despite online complaints of “dens manufacturing gutter cooking oil” in areas of Henan province, “the food safety commission replied that they didn’t find any,” Agence France-Presse reported
At least two million tons of cooking oil are recycled illegally every year in China, the country’s state-run news agency reported last week. The government has arrested dozens of people involved in peddling the so-called gutter oil, which sells at a discount.
A stomach-churning report Tuesday in The China Daily pointed to the difficulty of identifying the illegal oil as well as some of the reasons why it could harm Chinese consumers and embarrass restaurants:
By J. DAVID GOODMANA Chinese journalist reporting on a scandal surrounding illegal cooking oil was found stabbed to death this week, the journalism advocacy group Reporters Without Borders said on Tuesday.
The reporter, Li Xiang, was stabbed more than 10 times as he returned to his home in the city of Luoyang on Monday, the official English-language China Daily reported.
Mr. Li had been following the story of restaurants illegally recycling cooking oil, a dangerous health hazard to diners, and had written about it on his personal blog before his death. Though he had never published any reports for his employer, Luoyang Television, news reports cited Chinese bloggers who said his death was likely connected to his investigation of the oil scandal.
In his last post on his Twitter-like microblogging page, Mr. Li wrote that despite online complaints of “dens manufacturing gutter cooking oil” in areas of Henan province, “the food safety commission replied that they didn’t find any,” Agence France-Presse reported
At least two million tons of cooking oil are recycled illegally every year in China, the country’s state-run news agency reported last week. The government has arrested dozens of people involved in peddling the so-called gutter oil, which sells at a discount.
A stomach-churning report Tuesday in The China Daily pointed to the difficulty of identifying the illegal oil as well as some of the reasons why it could harm Chinese consumers and embarrass restaurants:
Gutter oil, or illegally recycled cooking oil, is often scooped up from sewage drains and gutters behind cooking establishments and then sold to small restaurants. More broadly, it also refers to oil refined from low-quality pork and animal offal as well as oil overused for fried food.
Many experts have claimed that the country’s current standard, which has nine test indicators, including acid value and pesticide residue, could easily allow illegal oil to slip through. Police in Ninghai county, Zhejiang province, recently sent 10 samples of gutter oil they had confiscated in raids for tests, but by current standards only two samples were found to be of poor quality.
Many experts have claimed that the country’s current standard, which has nine test indicators, including acid value and pesticide residue, could easily allow illegal oil to slip through. Police in Ninghai county, Zhejiang province, recently sent 10 samples of gutter oil they had confiscated in raids for tests, but by current standards only two samples were found to be of poor quality.