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Uproar in China after cooking oil transported in fuel containers

China is enraged by the discovery that cooking oil was shipped in fuel-carrying containers, which is the most recent controversy in a nation where concerns about the safety of food are pervasive.

The Beijing News, a local state-sponsored publication, released an investigation last week into what it referred to as a “open secret” in the transportation sector. The outlet discovered that multiple tanker trucks had loaded and unloaded edible cooking oil right away, without stopping to clean up between loads.

In the face of growing competition, truck drivers informed the newspaper that this method helped to reduce expenses. The source also cited Zhu Yi, a food science expert, who stated that prolonged ingestion of coal oil—which is primarily composed of hydrocarbons—could result in poisoning.

With the federal government saying on Tuesday that it will begin an investigation, authorities have vowed to crack down. Beijing has promised to do much more in recent years to increase public trust and tighten food safety rules. The Chinese population is accustomed to food safety scandals.

In 2008, milk tainted with the chemical melamine poisoned hundreds of thousands of toddlers and killed six babies in China.

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The massive Chinese pork processing company Henan Shuanghui issued an apology in 2022 after it was revealed that employees had been wearing filthy uniforms and that unclean work procedures included packing meat that had fallen on the floor.

And when a video went viral last year purporting to show a worker at a plant peeing on raw materials, the world-renowned beer company Tsingtao launched an inquiry.

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