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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Amy Hawkins Senior China correspondent

Outrage in China over use of unwashed fuel tankers to transport cooking oil

Cooking oil products at a supermarket in Beijing
Cooking oil products at a supermarket in Beijing. Photograph: Ng Han Guan/AP

A food safety scandal has caused mounting public outrage in China days before a high-level Chinese Communist party meeting at which leaders will try to boost confidence in the economy.

Last week the state-run newspaper Beijing News published an in-depth exposé on the “open secret” of fuel tankers being used to transport cooking oil, without the tankers being washed or disinfected in between.

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