Gutter Oil Hong Kong Restaurants

The incident has raised public fears over food safety in hong kong.

Gutter oil hong kong restaurants. Think about that next time you go swimming in the ocean or order a fish from a restaurant. A potentially harmful oil called gutter oil has made its way to hong kong and investigators fear that this oil has been used to make some of the local favourites there including dumplings pastries and pineapple buns. Oil drums is seen in po yuen lard company the supplier of gutter oil to taiwan s chang guann in yuen long. Most of china s gutter oil winds up in cheap restaurants and among street food vendors.

In a report by the south china morning post 7 eleven maxim s cakes and two products served at starbucks could have been made with the gutter oil a vile and illicit cooking substance that is comprised of waste oils from sources such as restaurant fryers sewer drains offal food waste and the byproducts of leather tanneries. The gutter cooking oil scare kicked off when public health watchdogs busted chang guann an oil supplier in kaohsiung southern taiwan on sep. Taipei in a deepening tainted food scandal a senior taiwan health official said on friday that more contaminated cooking oil or gutter oil has been exported to hong kong and macau than was. In september 2012 an ongoing investigation into the suspected use of gutter oil as a raw material in the chinese pharmaceutical industry was revealed.

Clams shrimp fish all eat the decomposing matter as their food. The first documented case of gutter oil in mainland china was reported in 2000 when a street vendor was found to be selling oil obtained from restaurant garbage disposals. The oil which originates from taiwan is made from illegally recycled products including fat collected from grease traps. The list of the 13 restaurants reported to be using gutter oil was widely circulated via sms on friday in attempts to warn.