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China street food gutter oil.
Gutter oil is a general term for oil that has been recycled.
China has been fighting the practice for years.
The chinese are cracking down on gutter oiling cooking with oils and animal fatbergs scooped from the sewer in the wake of the deadly coronavirus outbreak.
In china gutter oil has been used to create products like soap rubber bio fuel plastics rooftops and cosmetics.
Food handling and hygiene practices are now under increased scrutiny including a renewed crackdown on the stomach churning practice during the chinese new year and spring festival period.
Gutter oil is reported to account for one tenth of cooking oil in china according to experts cited by rfa.
It can be used to describe the practice of restaurants re using cooking oil that has already been fried before.
It can also be used to describe the processing of waste oil collected from sources such as restaurant fryers grease traps slaughterhouse waste and fatbergs.