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Public outrage is mounting in China over allegations that a major state-owned food company has been cutting costs by using the same tankers to carry fuel and cooking oil – without cleaning them in between.

Public outrage is mounting in China over allegations that a major state-owned food company has been cutting costs by using the same tankers to carry fuel and cooking oil – without cleaning them in between.

The scandal, which implicates China’s largest grain storage and transport company Sinograin, and private conglomerate Hopefull Grain and Oil Group, has raised concerns of food contamination in a country rocked in recent decades by a string of food and drug safety scares – and evoked harsh criticism from Chinese state media.

It was an “open secret” in the transport industry that the tankers were doing double duty, according to a report in the state-linked outlet Beijing News last week, which alleged that trucks carrying certain fuel or chemical liquids were also used to transport edible liquids such as cooking oil, syrup and soybean oil, without proper cleaning procedures.

    • FiniteBanjo@lemmy.todayEnglish
      112·
      4 months ago

      TBH replacing oil with water to inflate net worth estimations is pretty tame compared to putting gasoline in people’s food.

      • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
        47·
        4 months ago

        It’s widely thought that they never cleaned the oil storage tanks they used to make them suitable for human consumption

        • FiniteBanjo@lemmy.todayEnglish
          102·
          4 months ago

          I think maybe you posted the wrong link, then? The page you linked to talked about loan fraud because a guy never actually shipped soybean oil he said he was shipping, filled storage tanks with water.

            • FiniteBanjo@lemmy.todayEnglish
              162·
              4 months ago

              Anytime Brudda

              I tried to skip through the video to find some information but I can’t really parse much from it, they talk about various subjects for 2 hours with very little order. Do they have any sources at all? Nothing in the description or comments. Also, they told people to soak things in peanut oil as fireproofing which is some of the dumbest shit I’ve heard today and I’ve seen comments on Hexbear so that’s saying something.

              • WanderingVentra@lemm.eeEnglish
                3·
                4 months ago

                It’s a civil engineering disasters podcast. I’ve heard them before, they’re actually pretty good. I like them but it requires looking at slides, so doesn’t really fit listening on my commute so I haven’t gotten too far, though. Usually they’ve got pretty good information so I doubt they’d say anything outrageously untrue unless they’re joking. There are a couple laymen in there just to tell jokes and put some banter in between the civil engineering and retelling history, so I could imagine one of them saying something like that jokingly, or one of the engineers, who has a really dry sense of humor, saying something like that, but I haven’t listened to this particular episode. But anyway, that’s probably why it meanders a bit throughout. Because the podcasts style. Anyway, just saying so people don’t have a negative reaction of the podcast from this reply because it’s not a bad one lol.