Beijing, 4 Apr (EFE).-the Chinese authorities seized more than 3,200 tons of a new type of “sewer oil” product of rotten fat of animals and their internal organs, the Ministry of public security reported in release of the country as today released the china.org website.
More than 100 people suspected of producing this oil were arrested in a police operation carried out in late March in four provinces and two municipalities and which also closed 13 mentioned oil-producing underground warehouses, he explained the environment.
Analysts in the field believe that the careful case seriously against the health of many people and future generations already that oil was distributed over a very wide territorial area.
Last year reported several cases of informal “oil of alcantarilla” sale, as it is known the reused from the leftovers from restaurant kitchens oil.
The new case, instead, is the preparation of oil from rotting meat or poor quality and even using decomposed fat of animals or their internal organs, specified the Ministry according to the source.
In August 2011, the Chinese Government launched a national campaign to counter bad practices against food security and at the end of February this year it was reported that in cases of extreme gravity marketers “sewer oil” could be sentenced to the death penalty.
However, unadulterated food scandals continue.
For example, in October 2011, in the Eastern Province of Zhejiang Chinese police arrested a man named Li Weijian to produce illegal oil and have corpses of animals and their bodies in a warehouse of his factory.
Oil Li produced him generated profits only between January and November of last year, of more than one million dollars, and was distributed in the eastern provinces of Anhui and Jiangsu and the municipality of Chongqing in Southwest China, for use in restaurants.
According to official figures, Beijing processed about 360 tons of oil which are 60 tons of waste, a situation similar to the northern cities of Tianjin and Hebei.
In recent years, in China the practices against the safety food caused fatalities in 2008 when scores of dairy firms contaminated with the toxic chemical melamine infant milk and which affect 300,000 babies of which 6 were killed. EFE
