Shuhei Wada
In China, problems of food are very serious and as everyone knows, there are so many problems there.
In this blog, I would like to introduce one of the biggest food problems in China is “地溝油” waste oil.
In China, about 10% of oils are this waste oil. Waste oil is the oil that has extracted from drain. The oil will be filtered once but it is still look a bit dirty. This waste oil tastes almost same as normal safety salad oil.
Since the cost of making oil is free, the job to extract oil from drain is very popular. They can earn about 130,000yen in one month and this wage is very high in China.
Because of its reasonable cost, waste oil might be used for processed foods in Japan.
Scary point of this oil is that the waste oil is containing aflatoxin.
Aflatoxin has some hundreds times stronger poison than arsenic(ヒ素).
There should be more detailed and strict check for these imported foods from China and some other developing countries.
This web site is explaining more detailed about this waste oil
To Shuhei
ReplyDeleteUnbelievable!!!
Where did you know the news?
I sometimes go to 100yen shop and buy some condiment.
As you know, most of the products in 100yen shop are imports from China.
I am scary about buying any food in 100yen shop.
Kazu Hatakeyama
This sounds really gross. I wonder how much arsenic-laced food I am eating now....
ReplyDeleteSee? The 100-mile diet might not be such a bad idea after all!
Ms. MacGregor
Asumi Oda
ReplyDeleteHello, Shuhei. I was quit shocked by your post. I haven't heard about it before so it made me think a lot about this problem. Is it because they can earn a lot of money by extracting oil from a drain that they won't stop doing this? And, if we are actually using this oil only because it's reasonable, that's so scary. I suppose we need to know the truth, and think of a way to solve this problem.
Thank you for letting me know about this shocking news.
Asumi