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Gutter oil snopes.
Cooking oil is used heavily in chinese foo.
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.
Eating food cooked with gutter oil can be poisonous.
Most of china s gutter oil winds up in cheap restaurants and among street food vendors.
Including plunging oil prices.
Gutter oil is an acceptable raw ingredient for products that are not for human consumption such as soap rubber bio fuel and cosmetics.
Gutter oil has been shown to be quite toxic and can cause diarrhea and abdominal pain.
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.
The consequence though is putting the public s health at great risk.