Most of china s gutter oil winds up in cheap restaurants and among street food vendors.
Gutter oil japan.
30 years later the situation still has not changed.
Japan shipped its used oil to taiwan.
What exactly is gutter oil.
Not just inferior cooking oil relabelled as well regarded brands but made from waste oil and rotting animal parts.
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Taipei japan did not import any products made with the gutter oil raising growing concern about food safety in taiwan the island s health authorities said friday.
Dìgōu yóu or 餿水油.
Although gutter oil is illegal it is said to be pretty common in china.
According to wikipedia as the name implies gutter oil is some liquid substance extracted from the sewers and are used as substitute to commercial grade cooking oil which is typically far more expensive.
It can also be used to describe the processing of waste oil collected from sources such as restaurant fryers grease traps slaughterhouse waste and.
In 1985 there were the first news that the police did something against it.
Sōushuǐ yóu is a general term for oil that has been recycled it can be used to describe the practice of restaurants re using cooking oil that has already been fried before.
All the answers have been accurate but even if you ve been eating gutter oil you have it s not necessarily that which is giving you diarrhea it could cross contamination of meat and vegetables unclean meat and vegetables unsanitary utensils or even more likely all of the above plus more.
Yes gutter oil 地沟油 dìgōu yóu pretty much really comes from gutters well sewer drains grease traps slaughterhouse waste depots disposed of meat animal fat skins innards and restaurant oil dumps.
Once collected this slop is then filtered mixed together cooked up and then sold to unscrupulous restaurants around china.
History gutter oil exists in taiwan since the 1960ies.
