No contaminated oil has entered market, Guangdong says
By Qiu Quanlin in Guangzhou | chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2024-07-11 17:34
No reserve edible oil that does not meet national food safety standards has entered the grain market or been used in food production in Guangdong province, the local food and strategic reserves authorities said.
In accordance with relevant national requirements, the province has established a three-tier local reserve system for edible vegetable oils at the provincial, municipal and county levels, according to the Food and Strategic Reserves Administration of Guangdong province.
The main types of edible vegetable oils in the local reserves across the province include soybean oil, peanut oil, blended oil and rapeseed oil, the authorities said.
After the edible oils are stored in the reserves, they must undergo acceptance testing by professional third-party quality inspection organizations, according to the authorities.
Edible oils must meet the quality criteria for storage as outlined in the grain and oil storage quality judgment rules, as well as the quality criteria specified in relevant national standards for edible vegetable oils and national food safety standards.
Only oils that pass the acceptance testing are confirmed as part of the local reserve supply, according to the authorities.
Since 2021, the random inspection rate of government reserve edible oil in the province has exceeded 30 percent of the reserve scale, with the pass rate for food safety indicators in the randomly sampled products reaching 100 percent.
Recent reports of tankers having illegal mixtures of cargo has sparked outrage among the public and led to a plunge in share prices of edible oil companies.
China Grain Reserves Group Ltd Co (Sinograin), the country's largest grain storage and transport company, has been accused of being involved in mixed and contaminated cargo transport cases.
Also, Jinlongyu, a major domestic producer of packed edible oils affiliated with Yihai Kerry Arawana Holdings Co Ltd — a major domestic agricultural and food products processor — reportedly mixed transport of edible oils at its plants in Wuhan, Hubei province, and Shaanxi province.
