What is saliva oil?
When it comes to gutter oil, everyone must know it, but what is saliva oil?
Recently, the Huainan Intermediate People's Court in Anhui Province pronounced a verdict on a case of producing and selling toxic and harmful food. With the disclosure of the case, saliva and oil suddenly became a hot search word on the Internet.
According to the facts of the case, from January 1, 2019, a hot pot restaurant began to wait for customers to finish eating the hot pot, pour the hot pot soup containing butter into a bucket with a strainer, filter out the residue of the hot pot, collect and store the oil floating on it, and the next day, add it to the hot pot ordered by the customer and serve it to the customer. Until October 21, 2021. In other words, the hot pot restaurant has repeatedly used the hot pot soup mixed with the saliva of diners for nearly three years.
Hence the name of saliva oil.
The name sounds unappetizing and uncomfortable.
Why did they do that? Is it to save money?
According to reports, the bottom of the red oil pot of the hot pot is made of "new oil", but the "new oil" tastes no aroma, and the "old oil" extracted from the bottom of the red oil pot left by the guests can play a role similar to yeast, and there is a special fragrance.
Therefore, in order to attract customers, the guests eat the leftover leftovers**, filter and rinse the remaining base oil, and then add a variety of "scientific and technological hard work" to make "old oil" and add it to the hot pot for customers to eat.
The production process of "saliva oil" is much simpler than that of gutter oil, and it can be made by finding two large barrels and taking two colander filter bowls.
Low-cost processing, on the contrary, can have a good appetite effect, which is why this hot pot restaurant is so rampant.
According to research, the consumption of "saliva oil" can cause serious harm to human health.
Some common infectious bacteria, such as hepatitis A virus and Mycobacterium tuberculosis, can be transmitted through saliva. After the guests carrying the above germs are eaten, there is a possibility that the above germs may remain in the hot pot base, and the "saliva oil" will be refined and re-used by new customers, and there is a possibility of cross-infection.
"Saliva oil" can also affect the function of the digestive system, causing symptoms such as gastrointestinal upset, diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, etc. In addition, under the condition of repeated high-temperature heating, oil will also produce chronic carcinogens, and toxic and harmful substances in oil and oil will continue to accumulate, which will eventually cause harm to human health.
As soon as the news came out, it attracted the attention of the public, so how should the relevant units supervise? to protect the legitimate rights and interests of consumers. This is a matter of concern.