Chinese consumed millions of gallons of toxic sewage oil: study

[DainBramaged]

Chinese cooking oil siphoned from restaurants' waste tanks and stripped out of raw sewage is being resold on the cheap and has for years tainted approximately one out of every ten meals cooked in the eastern nation, according to a recent study.

The revelation, first noted by state media, sent Chinese health inspectors into a snit as they scrambled to reassure the public that the claims were being investigated.

"He Dongping, a professor at the Wuhan Polytechnic University, has been studying the problem for seven years," newspaper Epoch Times noted. "According to China Youth Daily, he found that China recycles an estimated two million to three million tons of waste oil per year. Combining that figure with the estimated 22.5 million tons of total vegetable oil and animal fat consumed by the Chinese per year, it is estimated that 10 percent is returning to people’s dining tables."

The only apparent difference between the toxic sewage oil and normal oil is the remarkable price difference, with the tainted cooking stock selling for approximately half the price of its' legitimate competitor.

"In addition to an effective method of detection having yet to be found, the difficulty is compounded once the illegal oil has been blended into ordinary ones," state media China Daily reported. The 'illegal cooking oil' is usually made from discarded kitchen waste that has been refined . Although it looks clean and clear, it actually contains toxic substances, including 'aflatoxin', which can cause cancer."

http://rawstory.com/2010/03/chinese-consumed-millions-gallons-toxic-sewage-oil-study/

The state-run China Daily news agency encourages consumers to be suspicious, recommending that buyers "taste" the cancer-causing substance before making a purchase.

[closeupready]

1. Seems like a day doesn't pass by without another scandal vindicating my boycott of Chinese foods.

(Imported ones.)

[SPedigrees]

5. If it's not melamine, it's some other toxin.

It vindicates my permanent boycott of commercial petfood that began 3 yrs ago.

[snagglepuss]

6. +1

[Cirque du So-What]

2. What percentage of pharmaceuticals now come from China?

Consider that corporate motherfuckers are also attempting to foist an increasing percentage of FOOD products upon the American public. The plutocrats don't have to worry about toxic sludge in their food; unlike 99% of Americans, they can afford to have their servants purchase everything they eat from Whole Foods or the like. As far as they're concerned, everyone else can literally eat shit and die.

[SPedigrees]

4. Most, if not all. Chinese raw meds are bought by our pharma cos

who press them into pills and package them for sale. That's why we're seeing so many recalls. Metal particulate in various meds, including injectibles, from substandard metals and plastics in the containers they were stored in.

[girl gone mad]

18. vitamins, too.

[Kaleva]

3. Sucks to be the guy who strips the oil from raw sewage.

[Canuckistanian]

7. There's your "unrestrained market forces" at work

Zero regulation. Infinite profits.

Oh, and some dead people.

[MattBaggins]

8. So how much of this oil found its way into America?

[Hekate]

12. One wonders, doesn't one. I imagine quite a lot.

[Elwood P Dowd]

9. Take a look at this......

http://www.chinahush.com/2009/10/21/amazing-pictures-pollution-in-china/

[Wilms]

10. More proof that capitalism is the source of innovation. n/t

[Hekate]

11. urk Kick and Rec

[troubledamerican]

13. De-regulated Utopia

[upi402]

14. just refused to buy Asian food product from China

Why the hell can't we keep their toxic shit out of the USA?

[Hannah Bell]

15. because half our chinese imports are not chinese owned, but western-owned?

i.e. it's actually us capitalists selling us the shit.

[upi402]

16. true, and it's US saying it's okay to eat shit too! n/t

[Duppers]

17. oh crap!

Where will my hubby & I be this fall? for a whole month? Yep. :puke:

How can one keep away from fried foods in China?!!

[closeupready]

21. I guess stick to fresh fruits, and steamed dumplings.

And chain fast food restaurants?

[Duppers]

22. good choices. thanks.

But wouldn't the chain fast food places be using the cheap oil too?

We'll be here: http://www.shanghaiworldsfair.com/

then onto Beijing.

[Duer 157099]

19. Jeez, I hope that's one thing they are *not* shipping over here

Although, if I found out they were, I wouldn't be surprised

[berni_mccoy]

20. Nasty!

[DainBramaged]

23. Think about that, they process shit to reuse the cooking oil

whereas we reprocess cooking oil to use in engines.



And these are the people from whom we get HUNDREDS of billions of dollars of products and to whom we've lost hundreds of thousands of jobs........

[Vinca]

24. OMG - how many American manufacturers would actually

buy cheap "shit oil" if given the opportunity? That's where the gluten came from that killed pets.