Gutter Oil Snopes

A photograph shows piles of currency throw in a gutter in venezuela money made worthless due to socialism.

Gutter oil snopes.

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. Gutter oil has been shown to be quite toxic and can cause diarrhea and abdominal pain. Gutter oil is an acceptable raw ingredient for products that are not for human consumption such as soap rubber bio fuel and cosmetics.

There are also reports that long term consumption of the oil can lead to stomach and liver cancer. 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 consequence though is putting the public s health at great risk.

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.