The consequence though is putting the public s health at great risk.
Gutter oil snopes.
Including plunging oil prices.
In the market gutter oil is being sold for merely 940 a ton compared with commercial grade oil which sells 1 500 that s savings around 560.
The short documentary details the illegal production and sale of so called gutter oil a cooking oil made from restaurant sewer refuse and rotten animal fat that is refined and then sold mostly.
Eating food cooked with gutter oil can be poisonous.
Gutter oil has been shown to be quite toxic and can cause diarrhea and abdominal pain.
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A photograph shows piles of currency throw in a gutter in venezuela money made worthless due to socialism.
Most of china s gutter oil winds up in cheap restaurants and among street food vendors.
China s food safety problems have no better symbol than the illegal and utterly disgusting problem of gutter oil.