If foreign manufacturers use the toxic gutter oil to make food products like love letters and pineappple tarts singaporeans who go overseas could eat them or bring them back to singapore people who have information on the unauthorised collection of waste from grease traps should contact nea on 1800 2255632 or contact nea nea gov sg.
Gutter oil singapore.
Dìgōu yóu or 餿水油.
Yes gutter oil 地沟油 dìgōu yóu pretty much really comes from gutters well sewer drains grease traps slaughterhouse waste depots disposed of meat animal fat skins innards and restaurant oil dumps.
Most of china s gutter oil winds up in cheap restaurants and among street food vendors.
A gutter oil scandal in taiwan and hong kong has had repercussions for singapore traders selling pineapple cakes and mooncakes who have had to reassure customers that products imported from the.
Zaobao understands that the men escaped the police s pursuit but their boss mr huang was.
Local discussion forums were abuzz with other gutter oil sightings in singapore.
But many posts not just mcf are suggesting that it being used as cooking oil as if it is a confirmed case and causing unnecessary fear discomfort for some.
Gutter oil refers to used cooking oil reclaimed from drains which is re used after being filtered.
Once collected this slop is then filtered mixed together cooked up and then sold to unscrupulous restaurants around china.
It can also be used to describe the processing of waste oil collected from sources such as restaurant fryers grease traps slaughterhouse waste and.
The environment agency said that there have not been any reported cases of hawkers using gutter oil for cooking in the last five years.
Edited march 5 2014by scion.
In one photo a man and a woman in civilian clothes were spotted extracting waste oil in jurong west with the use.
Gutter oil alleged to have been pumped out of sewers near food outlets in jurong was not sent to hawkers but used for processing into biodiesel the national environment agency nea said.
All i am trying to say i did not make my self clear.