Recycling cooking oil still prevalent

FOUR DEFENDANTS were prosecuted on Friday inWenzhou, East China’s Zhejiang province, because of their involvement in the production and use of illegal cooking oil that was used by a local hotpot restaurant. SouthernMetropolis Daily commented on Sunday:

TheWenzhou restaurant’s practice of recycling the oil used for the hotpot base and then mixing it with fresh oil will have shocked those customers who used to queue for hours to eat there.

However, the exposure of the restaurant’s misdeeds last September triggered further investigation into the shady business, and it turns out that many other hotpot restaurants in the province have been employing the same trick.

The production of the so-called gutter oil is waning against the backdrop of enhanced supervision and enforcement. But the use of it has not been curbed.

Some hotpot restaurants have plenty of “incentive” to make their own “gutter oil”, because the cost is low and in most cases customers fail to

The BeijingMunicipal Commission of Housing and Urban-Rural Development recently announced it would launch a special pilot housing program for the so-called new Beijingers.

The term newBeijingers refers to those who do not have a Beijing hukou (household registration) notice anything wrong with the carefully mixed oil. That theWenzhou restaurant did not receive any customer complaints is a case in point.

But the recycled oil is by no means safer than the illegally manufactured substandard oil and can cause as much harm to customers.

Supervisory authorities at all levels need to do a better job, although the self-recycling of cooking oil can be difficult to trace and locate. Assigning undercover officials to collect evidence and rewarding citizens who report suspicious restaurants are worth a try.

The latest judicial interpretation stipulates that producers of the so-called gutter oil could face the death penalty, which should act as deterrent if there is stricter supervision to go with it.

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but are stably employed in the city. According to the commission, the pilot program plans to allocate 30 percent of public rental housing to these newBeijingers. In the future there will be a special long-term mechanism for housing newBeijingers.

According to the commission, 30 percent of the 300 public rental housing units in Chaoyang district and 100 public rental housing units in Daxing district will be allotted to new Beijingers who qualify to purchase housing in the capital. No less than 30 percent of the 780 units in Changping district will be allotted to these households, as well. Those newBeijingers who work in the same district as the housing units will have priority. Experts said the policy aims to solve the housing difficulties faced by newBeijingers and will help cool the housing market.

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