Recycled oil sold as new
Tests conducted on 19 brands of the “cheap” oil sold nationwide revealed that repeated exposure to high temperatures had made it unfit for human consumption, the Malaysian Association of Standards Users said.
Manufacturers are believed to have bought the oil used in restaurants through middlemen and processed it for re-sale.
The association sent the samples for “polar compound testing” to Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, which found all 19 brands falling short of international standards, its CEO Ratna Devi Nadarajan told The Star.
*Full story in The Star today
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* Source : http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2011/12/13/nation/20111213064749&sec=nation
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