Cooking Oil Scandal Sparks Outrage Over Food Safety in China

Tanker trucks, which had just unloaded coal oil, were immediately used to carry edible soybean oil, without any cleaning process.
Cooking Oil Scandal Sparks Outrage Over Food Safety in China
A man riding a bicycle with a barrel of cooking oil leaves a supermarket in Beijing on June 12, 2024. Wang Zhao/AFP via Getty Images
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The Chinese communist regime is facing a public outcry over the revelation that some big companies transport cooking oil in contaminated fuel tankers.

On July 2, Chinese state media outlet Beijing News reported that to save costs, the multipurpose use of the same tankers for transporting cooking oil, fuel, and industrial chemicals has “become the norm.”

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