For decades, we've been told by dietitians, doctors and public health authorities to avoid saturated fats such as butter or lard in favour of unsaturated vegetable oils like safflower and soya...
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Two more cooking oil samples have been found to contain a cancer-causing substance at levels higher than the European Union or mainland limit.
12 Jun 2012
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Call it the Swiss Army knife of the plant kingdom. The coconut is a good source of calories and potable fluid, has fibre that can be spun into rope, and a hard shell that fuels fires. The whole...
Police seized more than 3,000 tonnes of illegally manufactured cooking oil last month in raids on 13 underground workshops and licensed factories on the mainland.
More than 100...
The Supreme People's Court says it is ready to hand down death sentences to serious offenders in 'gutter oil' cases in a bid to crack down on the rampant use of recycled cooking oil by restaurants...
If you're shunning all kinds of oils for fear of getting fat, here's something you should know: the amount of oil and fat you eat isn't linked with disease. What matters is the type you eat.
...We all know that cooking with too much oil and grease is not good for our bodies, but we may not realise that improper disposal of fats is also bad for the environment.
Shanghai has ordered restaurants to sell used cooking oil only to 'regulated teams' in a bid to stamp out 'gutter oil' - reprocessed oil linked to health risks.
The central government has launched a national research project to create safety standards to identify 'gutter oil' or waste cooking oil.
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