"Every year, 3 million tons of gutter oil flows from private black-market workshops to the dining tables of Chinese citizens. The harmful substance contained in this oil, aflatoxin, is even 100 times more toxic than arsenic." - Since the day before yesterday, an investigation report on "gutter oil" originating from Wuhan has been wildly reprinted online, drawing nationwide attention. I wonder who invented gutter oil? Haven't you applied for a patent from the state?
Chinese people consume an average of 3 million tons of gutter oil per year! What does this mean? Let's talk about it in numbers. Dividing by the 1.4 billion population, on average, each person consumes 2.142857143 kilograms of gutter oil per year. Once calculated, it is quite alarming. However, this serious issue may just be the tip of the iceberg in the entire food safety problem.
On the same day, the State Food and Drug Administration issued an urgent notice, requiring localities to take swift action to prevent gutter oil from entering the catering industry.
Yesterday, He Dongping, the head of the Oilseed and Oil Working Group of the National Grain Standardization Committee and professor at Wuhan Polytechnic University, who was involved in the "investigation", met with reporters and expressed significant pressure. "How to quickly detect gutter oil is an urgent problem, and also a big challenge," he said.
Here, let's not discuss other issues for now. The existence of such a large amount of gutter oil may seem surprising at first glance, but in reality, it is quite commonplace. Think about it, how many people haven't consumed gutter oil?
The existence of gutter oil is not something that happened overnight. It involves the interests behind it and has even formed a mature "industry chain". From the producers of gutter oil, wholesalers, to the entire catering industry, it can be said that a sharp closed loop has been formed over a long period. How to break this closed loop? Where should we start? Who is responsible? These are issues that need our serious resolution.
Of course, there is the issue of Chinese eating habits. Where there is demand, there is a market. However, it is not hard to find that behind this demand, there are two major thorny problems.
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