20 hot pot restaurants in Sichuan, which used garbage and waste oil to manufacture and sell waste oil, were investigated.

　　CCTV News:Recently, when the public security organs and market supervision and management departments of Guang ‘an City, Sichuan Province jointly conducted law enforcement inspections, they investigated and dealt with 20 hot pot restaurants suspected of producing and using waste oil.

　　Staff of a hotpot restaurant:That’s new oil, this is old oil, and then burn it after it’s taken out. The new oil and this old oil are combined, and the bottom material of hot pot must be old oil.

　　Police:How did the old oil come from?

　　Staff of a hotpot restaurant:Old oil is extracted from that.

　　Police:How did that oil come from?

　　Staff of a hotpot restaurant:That oil was used at night.

　　When law enforcement officers inspected a hotpot restaurant in Zijin Street, Guang ‘an District, Guang ‘an City, they found that it was beneficial for the kitchen to recycle oil and process it into "gutter oil".

　　Liuyong, policeman of the Economic Crime Investigation Brigade of Guang ‘an District Branch of Guang ‘an Public Security Bureau:According to the staff in the store, every time customers finish eating, they will pour the bottom of the hot pot into a stainless steel bucket with a filter screen. Every night at 9 o’clock, the chef will filter the filtered oil again, clean it after filtering, and cool the cleaned oil. The next day, the cooled oil will be added to the new bottom of the pot.

　　After investigation, in order to save costs, the chef Pu Moumou used kitchen waste and waste oil to manufacture and sell waste oil. At present, Pu Moumou was transferred to Guang ‘an District Procuratorate for examination and prosecution by public security organs for producing and selling toxic harmful food.

　　Yang Zhixiong, deputy head of the Food and Drug Crime Investigation Detachment of Guang ‘an Public Security Bureau:Waste cooking oil means that kitchen waste and animal waste fat flow to the dining table through refining and processing. As edible oil, it is called waste cooking oil. Many people don’t know the harm of waste cooking oil. In fact, waste cooking oil contains toxic and harmful carcinogens such as lead, arsenic, aflatoxin and benzopyrene.

　　It is understood that since October 2019, the Public Security Bureau of Guang ‘an City, Sichuan Province has launched a special campaign to crack down on illegal and criminal activities in the fields of "health products" and "gutter oil". Up to now, the public security organs of Guang ‘an City, together with the market supervision department, have conducted 56 inspections on major hot pot restaurants in the city, seized 20 suspected illegal and criminal cases of gutter oil, and arrested 23 suspects. Among them, 8 cases have been handed over to the procuratorate for review and prosecution, and other cases are under further investigation.