Chinese Cooking Oil “Made from Sewage”
- Categories: International, News
- Date: Mar 21, 2010 09:45 JST
- Tags: Bizarre, China, Crime, Food, Guro, Made in China
The news that a tenth of all cooking oil used in China may be made from recycled sewage and laced with toxic contaminants has stunned China.
Originating from a report on a state radio station, the news that “Chinese are eating 3,000,000 tons of ‘recycled cooking oil’ each year, but it is 100 times more toxic than arsenic!” spread throughout China in a matter of days.
The cooking oil is apparently “recycled” from raw sewage taken from sewers and elsewhere, which is heated and filtered. After filtration the liquid is transparent and free of particulate matter, and can be rendered into cooking oil.
Fears over the toxicity of the recycled oil are high. Significant levels of aflatoxins have been detected, a poison said to be “100 times more toxic than arsenic,” and known to cause growth defects in children and cancer.
Viral and bacterial contaminants are thought not to be a problem, assuming the sewage-oil is properly boiled in preparation.
Despite the obvious hygiene and safety problems of using treated sewage in cooking, its usage is thought to be widespread, as the “recycled” cooking oil is all but indistinguishable from normal cooking oil, in all but one aspect – its price.
It costs only 300 yuan ($45) a ton to manufacture, half the price of regular oil, and it is said to be common use throughout China – estimates are that it constitutes a tenth of all cooking oil used in China.
Chinese food safety regulators, such as they are, launched an immediate emergency investigation, although it is not clear if they actually previously approved the activity.
China’s record on food safety is of course already utterly abysmal, but if as widespread as reported this could turn out to be the most damaging scandal to date, as cooking oil is an integral part of food preparation in China.
Nations importing cheap cooked foodstuffs from China may also be concerned that they have been inadvertently poisoning their children by trading with a nation in which regulation and business ethics are all but unknown.
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they aren't humans anyway
those damn Chinks have involved into something else
I must agree. As a chinese-american I am woefully disappointed in your xenophobia. I should mock you for botching your own language. 'involved into something else'
racist bastard go fuck yourself
Well, *theoretically*, it should not be a problem in terms of biological contaminants, as they -- according to the story -- use high heat in the process, which should kill off anything nasty.
The biological problem I see is re-contamination by little droplets which spattered up and didn't get the full high-heat treatment.
The BIGGEST problem I see is that Chinese manufacturing companies will be dumping all sorts of toxic chemical contaminants into the sewer system, and the "high-heat" process does NOTHING to remove them.
"Don't worry about that hexavalent chromium, we used a paper towel to filter it out..."
Why the fuck does China do these things?
Seriously. Who looks at cooking oil and says "Hey, this would be cheaper to make if we used Treated Sewage instead of normal ingredients? This takes a step beyond "Bad Business Ethics" and into "Cartoonish Supervillainy".
So I guess the only thing one can say about this is, well, buy your ingredients at a premium, and don't eat at the cheapest fry-stands around.
Also: "Mmmmm, e-coli!"
Consider this... One bowl of rice feeds one person in US, while the same bowl is shared with seven people in China.
As China is embracing capitalism, the gaps between lower class and upper class starts to widen. Higher demands from the rich, plus food shortages equals high prices for simple good. The poor have to come up with ways, however crude, to get the same products.
It's not China as a whole that's doing this. That's why the officials are shutting it down.
because it's not sewage. it's re-used oil, essentially.
Bullcrap. Allow me to put it to you simply: would YOU eat cooking oil that was made like this? Hell no, you wouldn't!
Now, cooking oil that DIDN'T go into the sewer? Okay, I can deal with recycling that, after the MULTIPLE filterings that are done on it in the United States, it is reusable!
HOWEVER, not when it went in the fucking sewer!
So let me get this straight.
It costs half the price of competitive cooking oil.
It's estimated that 10% of China uses it.
Would someone care to point out the glaring flaw in that logic?
Anyone? At all? Bueller?
"Significant levels of aflatoxins have been detected, a poison said to be “100 times more toxic than arsenic,” and known to cause growth defects in children and cancer."
That poor cancer...its going to grow with a defect. :)
Awwwwwwww sick!
これこそ"和谐" 哀れだな
You must be a fucking "dirty and immoral" red chinese
春哥在此,这就是和谐。。。你丫董B啊?
There are very few sources on this, but there are multiple, and some precedent from a few years ago too...
http://www.worldwatch.org/node/4656
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/PEK229836.htm
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9403E2D71F3EF936A35751C1A9609C8B63&n=Top%2FNews%2FWorld%2FCountries%20and%20Territories%2FChina [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9403E2D71F3EF936A35751C1A9609C8B63&n=Top/News/World/Countries and Territories/China]
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2009-11/17/content_8986419.htm
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2010-03/18/content_9610919.htm
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2010-03/19/content_9611395.htm
http://www.chinahush.com/2010/03/18/restaurant-head-chef-talks-about-drainage-oil-in-china/
This news is about Chinese government find and destory the undocumented oil factory.
This factory is not registered with Chinese government, so they dare use this things to make oil.
Not all factories are like is.
i am totally speechless, currently working in china, and eating all kinds of food here, very cheap food...
i think that is really a food for thought -____-;;
good thing i didnt get sick but i want to know the health risks.
i already know the air over here is really bad and i have cough problem on initial few months, it is better now, but i want to know the long term health implications
Well it certainly reminds me once again than the less I know the less sick I get by going in a store...
It took me a moment to process what sewage actually meant...grosss!!!
it's china after all
SHH!! Keep this quiet because you would not want to give our lil communists, Obama and his croonies, any ideas :P.
Because the government is heavily involved in selling cooking oil, right?
...Brilliant.
I wonder if cooking on depleted uranium is healthier?
I see where does Anti-Soda campaign get those grease from.
No wonder chinese food has such a unique taste
they should add a fine print :
May contain traces of Nuts, Crustaceans, Soy, Milk, Shit, etc.
Don't forget the cadmium,mercury,lead,dioxin,and phenol compounds.
China keep topping themselves in ingenuity, good for them. Excuse while I go burn anything made in China.
so what else is new?
typically China standard level of products.
1 word of advice?
never buy anything "made in china".
just try and find anything of common use thats not made in china
gl
Aaaah..good thing I'm NOT in China.
Those who said you would never eat another "made in China" product, chances are you may die from starvation quicker than food poisoning.
They'll just shell out more money for the non-MiC food, plenty from elsewhere. Obesity maybe but they won't starve.
I guess most of you must be too young to remember the aflatoxin scandal back in 2001 when it was found that many brands of US peanut butter contained aflatoxins at well over the permitted levels. All peanut butter contains aflatoxins to some degree or other, it's pretty much unavoidable. The thing is though, are aflatoxins really as bad as people say? The science linking them with liver cancer is still a bit inconclusive, and has only been definitively established in the case of people already suffering from hepatitis B.
who cares about some random substance with some random scientific name.
These guys are making people eat the oily fucking parts of TURDS!
Comparable to Singapore using recycled water?
Its called New Water btw
have you seem the recycle plant and the technology use for New water?
Idea is the same, application of how it is done is different.
Remember the cardboard rice cakes? They had no rice just cardboard. All the stuff prior and since I don't think I even want any more pets since they all died of 'something' abnormal and strange for conditions. I am all wracked up too like my kidneys are hard from something. The only thing I can see that China can do worse than it has been is using the cook book from the movie about aliens "to cook Man" or whatever the name was. Next thing we will see is, south asian, north asian, russian, american, latin american, on cannabilistic food processed and served by China. It can't get any worse.. can it?
the cardboard thing was a hoax, dumbass, and this isn't sewage- it's waste oil.
if you could make viable oil out of sewage for that cheap it'd be burned as fuel, dumbass.
I know this may seem a little shallow but this discourages me from buying Chinese food products from the store, i used to buy Chinese cooking oil ans even if the brand i buy does not use raw sewage, i am not buying it anymore from here on out.
Old news really if you do google search its a 200 mil a year business.
They make shit they live in shit and they eat shit. The rich all moved to Canada and run the shit from there. The poor...well they die off.
One would be a fool to believe such source especially in sankaku.
Not to mention it's from a racist fuck.
Why don't you migrate to China and eat their food then. Oops, you're already there? Feel so sorry for you:(
Do a search on cooking oil china illegal. It worked with hazard/violation yesterday but not anymore. Associated Free press and English China news sites are the only ones I can locate. It was first reported September 2009.
Although it seems one of the picture is from 2003 based on global times.
Wikipedia link, with sources, in traditional Chinese:
http://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-tw/%E5%9C%B0%E6%B2%9F%E6%B2%B9 [http://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-tw/地沟油]
Just search for "地沟油" to get all the Chinese information on it. Japanese language sources can be found with "地溝油." Image searching will give you all the grotesque pictures you can bear.
This has evidently been going on for some time, but the latest outing was from a Chinese media report on the 18th.
China - what can't they come up with next?
Unfortunately it's not "only in China", there are similar stories from all over the world where stuff ranging from extremely disgusting to outright toxic have been used in production of human consumables.
And in other parts of the world, where it found out that happened, the people who did that are put into prison for a good long time!
Well, in China someone will be keeled ded for this. There will be others, though.
Well, in China they're also put in prison, just that there are too many people to replace them. On the bright side, their death penalty, when used, takes care of some people permanently.
Chinese people crack me up. xD
yeah and we will fuck u up and crack ur asshole 10 meters wide apart.. keep laughing bro
Haha.. ha.. ..ha? Chinese people sure are a lot of cheap talk and empty threats. C:
I wonder how much pre cooked chinese food is sold at walmart.
据我所知肯定不多，因为那是你们伟大的阿美利加合众国，自从你们的民主战士解放了北朝鲜、越南、阿富汗、伊拉克、伊朗之后，我们这帮肮脏的中国黄猴子就无比期待你们的民主战士用他们硕大的转基因香蕉来爆中国共产党的小菊花。我们这些下贱的中国黄猴子就靠伟大的阿美利加转基因香蕉了，请快一点，请用力一点，more、more!
oh how i wish the USA people could understand what you say....
那你就翻译给他们呗，美国人有多么了不起，给北朝鲜、越南、阿富汗、伊拉克、伊朗带去了多么“幸福”的生活，世界人民就指望美国人了，美国人才是全地球、全宇宙的未来，中国人只不过是集体吃地沟油的癌症患者，人类的耻辱。这不就是这个网站转载这篇报道的意思吗，看不过的话就来做，有本事你就来干掉这十多亿的人，干掉这个被你们认为是全民吃地沟油的肮脏国家！
自暴自棄 就是如此
More or less so butt hurt they deign not to communicate their frustration to others in order to convey some sort of false superiority. Mostly sarcastic comments about the US.
If other can't understand you, then you're just farting into the wind but you do make others with your opinion and frustration feel slightly better for themselves.
I think they just ordered some pepto bismol in Chinese T_T
China is a fucked up place. I still get nightmares over the girl with the growing stomach tumor.
SON OF A BITCH, i'm never buying chinese stuff ever again.
holyfuk!~ thats disgusting....
i'll
never
ever
and
forever
buy
another
"made in china"
food
product
again!
my response to those involved with-
the manufacturing of this poison
fuk u *casts Lv146 Chaos attack!*
Just read this on wiki about aflatoxins;
"... humans have an extraordinarily high tolerance for aflatoxin exposure and rarely succumb to acute aflatoxicosis."
That's why they got away with it for so long...
On another note, I'm going to be sick. My diet is (was) primarily imported Chinese food, and now I read this...
I wonder why are those policemen handling what should be considered as hazardous materials, with bare hands, not even with simple gloves or safety glasses...
Sometimes things aren't considered as hazardous as it is. Such as garbage collectors wear gloves to collect garbage, shouldn't you also wear gloves when you dump yours?
Well, what will come next?
Recycled Trash, which will be used as Food?
Lets hope not.
That reminds me of the robot from 'Judge Dredd' as it rolls through an alley saying "Eat recycled food: It's good for the environment, and okay for you."
Don't go giving them any ideas now...
Im surprised, that they didnt came up with this long time ago.
美利坚人类的未来和希望 快来拯救我们吧
中国哎
有什麽办法
你们唧唧哇哇的
有本事来解放中国啊
靠你们啦
美利坚人类的未来~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
再过那么十年二十年d..也许可能实现 whahaha
This is not much different from what happened in the UK after the industrial revolution. Hell, the Chinese working class now is probably better off than the European at the time... Capitalism at its finest, as another anon wrote.
This is no different to the things a hill billy would do in US.
For one thing, there are no 'hillbillys' in the US. The myth of southern ignorance is widespread and stereotypical.
Don't believe everything you see on TV.
i work for comcast, the hillbillies are alive and well... and fucking up their internet
you sir need to go to west texas
Again, problem caused by a small group of bastards wanting to earn $$$ somehow represents the taste of whole China now.
Typical Sankaku \^o^/
Again, problem caused by a small group of bastards wanting to earn $$$ somehow represents the whole China now (eyes rolling)
im getting fed up with this logic at sankaku. Artefact please post some shits about other countries plz.... -w-
Here we go again. Artefact and his posse or anti-Chinese whores slandering the name of good people living in harsh conditions.
Say, you wouldn't happen to enjoy laughing at Pakistanis, Indians and Africans' expenses would you?
I think not because you are after all a racist scum.
China shall bring these poor citizens out of the ditch and into the light. But first, we have to re-implement more of the socialist ideas that gave initial birth to this great nation of ours by equalising the wealth a bit.
Socialism is good, socialism is good!
In socialist nations, the people have high status.
Overthrow the reactionaries. Imperialism flees with its tail between its legs.
The entire nation is in great unity and has raised the socialist construction to a new height, to a new height.
Socialism is good, socialism is good!
The people protect the socialist system.
The popular capacity is solid, the resistance of reactionary cliques is completely futile.
The socialist society will definitely succeed, a communist society will definitely be achieved, will definitely be achieved!
The Communist Party is good! The Communist Party is good!
The Communist Party is a good leader for the people.
It holds its promises and works of any heart for the people.
Firmly anchored to the Communist Party, it is necessary to complete, complete the construction of our great fatherland!
The Communist Party is good! The Communist Party is good!
The Communist Party guides China on the way of the power.
The popular capacity is solid, the resistance of reactionary cliques is destined to fail.
The socialist society will definitely succeed, a communist society will definitely be achieved, will definitely be achieved!
lol
fuck you and fuck china
this is so damn funny, u all argue about all this without reliazing everthing is made in china. look all ur clothing, hardware n anything else that u regularly buy at store. n for ur racist faggots u need to grow up.
CHINA PRIDE!! China Quality!!!
MIC Represent!
Yes totally, every single Chinese cook with this oil, totally, all 1,400,000,000 of us. Don't ever use anything made in China again please, because its made in sewage.
...eat shit and die?
Jeez, China, it's just a phrase.
You know, this would be a great idea if they didnt make it into cooking oil, but, you know, into fuel.
In the US Army, it isnt uncommon to boil human waste around bases to convert into oil that can be rendered into diesel fuel (most army diesels can burn almost any flammable oil)
China can easily become the forefront of alternative fuel by doing this. Just with better facilities, mind you.
I'm surprised they dont start doing this in the US, instead of dumping it into the ocean.
"The news that a tenth of all cooking oil used in China may be made from recycled sewage and laced with toxic contaminants has stunned China."
Exactly what were they "stunned" about? The fact that its only a tenth? come on...we know about the recycled sewage oil stuff years ago...
Dirty, filthy, stinky chinky's torture dogs and cats before consuming them.
Eating endangerd animals, polluting there environment as well as ours, and they are taking over our economy. Anyone who says different has obviously never been to a dollar store.
Melamine in milk products and the thousands of pets who were poisoned by the reccent mass food recall.
One outa be nut's to trust any food from there.
DISCUSTING and Dirty is what Most of the west thinks of them. This is one instance were the stereo type fits the bill.LOL..
What in the hell is wrong with the Chinese?
jrittt china parah bangets..........
Holy CRAP! If this is true, some heads are going to roll over in China, literally, I bet!
This totally goes against American standards for cooking oil, and for basically ANY food product whatsoever! Man, I think even if Hell actually existed, this would be sickening to them as well!
They've known about it since 2003, just that new ones keep springing up.
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I think I'll be ordering pizza today...
dis show you dam capitalist pigz whie us communist iz better then yu! no fear dis "fuud safeti" tall tail u hamberger men maik up.
Didn't know Chinese talk like Ze Germans
Leave it to the Chinese to make doo doo into something worth selling, damn they are good!
<_< China is fucking gross
没你妈逼恶心
better than your mom's puusy
OH~FUCK YOU MOM