RSS Feeds  China jails 6 for selling dirty cooking oil as new
Tuesday - 4/9/2013, 12:00am  ET  BEIJING (AP) -- A Chinese court
says six people have been sentenced to up to five years in
prison for collecting used cooking oil and reselling it as new.
The recycled oil is known as "gutter oil" and can contain
carcinogens. It's typically bought from restaurants, and the
black-market trade of it has been a chronic problem in China.
The Nanchang County People's Court says three people in eastern
Jiangxi province were found guilty of buying substandard cooking
oil and selling 1,000 tons of it in 2011. The court statement
says the effort made $1 million.  Three other people at a drinks
manufacturer in southern Guangdong province bought oil from the
first group and sold it to cooking oil distributors. They were
imprisoned for three-to-five years for selling poisonous food.