Manager Arrested Over Lard Ingredients
AP
BEIJING (Dec. 4) - A factory manager in east China has been arrested for using grease from swill, sewage, pesticides and recycled industrial oil to make lard for human consumption, state media said Monday in the country's latest food scare.
Ying Fuming, a manager at the Fanchang Grease Factory in Taizhou, a city in Zhejiang province, sold the lard at half the price of other wholesalers while promising that his product met safety standards, the Shanghai Daily said.
The factory was shut down and local health and food authorities began an investigation this year after an anonymous tip indicated that the plant "recycled large amounts of used grease to process substandard lard," the newspaper said.
It is the latest incident involving substandard or fake food products in China, where there is rampant counterfeiting of food and medicines.
China's food safety watchdog announced last month that seven companies that produced salted, red-yolk duck eggs used potentially cancer-causing red dyes.
In 2004, at least 12 infants died from malnutrition after drinking phony formula in a city in the eastern province of Anhui. More than 200 babies suffered wasted limbs and swollen heads - common symptoms of malnutrition.
The Taizhou factory, which opened in September 2005, was ordered shut down but continued operating at night, the Shanghai Daily said. It sold its product to retailers across the country, who sold it to clients, including hotels and restaurants, it said.
In a recent night raid, officers found 83,000 pounds of raw materials and 11,600 pounds of lard, the newspaper said without providing any more details.
"Some was recycled edible grease, such as oil refined from swill and cooked oil," it said. "Some was grease rendered from sewage, and some was recycled industrial grease."
By law, only pure fat from hogs can be used to produce edible lard, the newspaper said.
Samples from the Fanchang factory showed an acid value more than 11 times higher than the national limit, it said.
Personally, I'd love to know how you render grease from sewage, but I'm a sick bastard.
Don't you love that ratio? 83,000 pounds of miscellaneous "raw materials" vs 11,600 pounds of lard?
Time to make the doughnuts, indeed!
Frank Hipper wrote:Personally, I'd love to know how you render grease from sewage, but I'm a sick bastard.
That's a good question. I guess there'd be a fair bit of grease getting run down the drains in an area with lots of restaurants, but other than that I can't think of anything.
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At sewage treatment plants settling tanks, you can literally see lumps and bubbles - enormous ones, I'm talking individual floating bubbles the size of large men - made of animal fat. All the chicken drippings and Foreman run-off people put down the drain eventually end up somewhere.
One of the more unpleasant trips made with a chemistry class.
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"Ying Fuming" hahahah! There should be a law in China that every Chinese name should be a pun in English.
I've seen really awful "Life of Grime" style programs where they'll crack a seal of fat that goes across a whole sewer and then they all have to rush out of the way as it all flows through, often swelling out of the manhole (lol) like a volcanic eruption.
What a cunning, evil and terminally gross bastard this chinaman was.
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Molyneux wrote:I have never been more glad of my avoidance of pork products in my life.
I have never been more glad that I have never Eaten Lard in my life (And that I rarely eat Pork outside D).
Just so I get it straight, you have a food called "Lard" made out of fat, grease and oil? Yay American Dietary values
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"Lard" is not a meal; it is used in cooking like butter or margarine.
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Is someone in China trying to reenact Upton Sinclair's the Jungle?
It'd be better if the government made people switch to using vegetable oils, at least that would drive down the trade surplus with the US.
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Molyneux wrote:I have never been more glad of my avoidance of pork products in my life.
I have never been more glad that I have never Eaten Lard in my life (And that I rarely eat Pork outside D).
Just so I get it straight, you have a food called "Lard" made out of fat, grease and oil? Yay American Dietary values
I honestly do not understand how pig is viewed as a food animal. It makes no sense to me.
Molyneux wrote:I have never been more glad of my avoidance of pork products in my life.
I have never been more glad that I have never Eaten Lard in my life (And that I rarely eat Pork outside D).
Just so I get it straight, you have a food called "Lard" made out of fat, grease and oil? Yay American Dietary values
I honestly do not understand how pig is viewed as a food animal. It makes no sense to me.
Well, they have meat on them that people eat. This process of successful and popular eating is what makes things get referred to as "food" when they don't have nutty penis-slicing tradition on their side.
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Molyneux wrote:I honestly do not understand how pig is viewed as a food animal. It makes no sense to me.
They taste decent and can be grown by the billions. Gotta love those high density pig farms.
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Molyneux wrote:I have never been more glad of my avoidance of pork products in my life.
I have never been more glad that I have never Eaten Lard in my life (And that I rarely eat Pork outside D).
Just so I get it straight, you have a food called "Lard" made out of fat, grease and oil? Yay American Dietary values
American Dietary Values? This article is about an event in China, genius.
Be that as it may, lard is consumed virtually worldwide, as is beef tallow, and any member of a culture that has given us schmaltz has zero, or less, justification in making generalizations about the cooking fats of others.
Lard is lower in trans fats than vegetable shortening and butter; it's a healthier alternative to either.
And, it's delicious.
Molyneux wrote:I've eaten bacon, and it tasted HORRIBLE.
Of course, this couldn't have been affected by factors such as a preconceived notion that you won't like it, a bad cook, or maybe the food you ate with it clashed with it in some way (like how soda tastes awful immediately after eating chocolate). None of which has anything to do with other people eating and liking pork products.
Molyneux wrote:I've eaten bacon, and it tasted HORRIBLE.
Of course, this couldn't have been affected by factors such as a preconceived notion that you won't like it, a bad cook, or maybe the food you ate with it clashed with it in some way (like how soda tastes awful immediately after eating chocolate). None of which has anything to do with other people eating and liking pork products.
And I suppose it also has nothing to do with the fact that bacon is a cured and heavily salted product and is not at all representative of the entire spectrum of pork-based product, such as porkchops, ham, sausages, and pork marinated in spices and cooked until it's tender enough to shred, and also ignores the fact that bacon doesn't even have to be made from pigs. Some folk make it from turkey, and even tofu. Goddamned tofu for crying out loud!
Molyneux wrote:I've eaten bacon, and it tasted HORRIBLE.
Of course, this couldn't have been affected by factors such as a preconceived notion that you won't like it, a bad cook, or maybe the food you ate with it clashed with it in some way (like how soda tastes awful immediately after eating chocolate). None of which has anything to do with other people eating and liking pork products.
Eh...I like cheeseburgers, even though I don't eat them, and the *taste* of shrimp is fine (though I'm not too fond of the texture). A friend who is extremely fond of bacon ate some of the same batch that I took from, and enjoyed it immensely, so I assumed that it was 'good' bacon.
I'm well aware that other people enjoy pork, ham, or whatever - I just dislike almost anything related to pigs.
Pick wrote:"Lard" is not a meal; it is used in cooking like butter or margarine.
Well, of course it depends. For example in many parts of Italy it is considered quite a delicacy when seasoned, sliced very thin and carefully placed on top of very hot unsalted bread, like the unes I gorged myself with this evening... :D
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Darth Wong wrote:Good thing market forces will put an end to this sort of thing, so no government intervention or regulation will be necessary
No, no, you have to see it this way. All the consumers have to do is to wait for a ton of people to get sick from the lard. Then they'll rise in protest and the media love these type of stories so they'll cover it. After that, the owner will be forced to shut the company down or fix his manufacturing procedures when people stop buying his lard. It's that easy!
If those who complain don't do shit about it because they got work or other responsibilities, well fuck them then. If they can't spend the time to take down an evil company, then they deserve to get sick!
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Rye wrote:What a cunning, evil and terminally gross bastard this chinaman was.
FYI "Chinaman" is considered a racial slur in a lot of places.
It's even in the dictionary.
I don't mind the word myself and Wong doesn't seem to either so... *shrugs*
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Grasscutter wrote:FYI "Chinaman" is considered a racial slur in a lot of places.
WTF are we supposed to call them?
"Oriental is offensive, don't use it."
"Asian is offensive, don't use it."
"Chinese is offensive, don't use it."
And this.
What am I supposed to say? Han-Tibetan-Upper Mongolian-Manchurian-whateverthehell? Should I demand I be called a Minnesotan instead of American? I'm sorry, but there needs to be some level between 'person' and said person's individual cultural heritage.</rant>
Rye wrote:What a cunning, evil and terminally gross bastard this chinaman was.
FYI "Chinaman" is considered a racial slur in a lot of places.
It's even in the dictionary.
I don't mind the word myself and Wong doesn't seem to either so... *shrugs*
Yeah, it was more for Rye's enlightenment more than anything, I didn't assume he was being racist. Chinaman is one of those words that people use without knowing or understanding its derogatory origins. I've noticed people slinging "Jap" around on the internet in the same fashion, using it only as a means of identifying someone or something as coming from Japan and not in a "hurr hurr stupid slant-eyes" way. They've worked their way into colloquial usage in some areas of the U.S., for good or ill.
Grasscutter wrote:FYI "Chinaman" is considered a racial slur in a lot of places.
WTF are we supposed to call them?
"Oriental is offensive, don't use it."
"Asian is offensive, don't use it."
"Chinese is offensive, don't use it."
And this.
What am I supposed to say? Han-Tibetan-Upper Mongolian-Manchurian-whateverthehell? Should I demand I be called a Minnesotan instead of American? I'm sorry, but there needs to be some level between 'person' and said person's individual cultural heritage.</rant>
Who's ever said that applying the term "Asian" to a person of Asian descent or "Chinese" to someone who's from China is offensive?
"Chinaman" isn't considered offensive because it's an indicator of a person's ethnic origin. It's offensive because it was historically used as a racial slur.
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