Ten months after the tainted oil scandals in Taiwan and Hong Kong, our government has recently proposed regulating edible fats and oils as well as waste cooking oil to protect public health. Edible oil suppliers will be required to prove that the product meets statutory standards (although the proposed standards are not as stringent as in some other places), while waste cooking oil should only be collected by those who have registered with the administration, so that the reprocessing of the oil can be easily traced.
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