Chinese cooking oil has been found to contain carcinogens

Chinese authorities have ordered the recovery of edible oil products from three companies, after discovering they contain the same type of cancer-causing toxins as the toxins found not long ago in milk. .

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According to Chinese media, Guangdong Provincial Health Authority ordered three companies, Fushing Oil, Manyi Peanut Oil and Maba Oil, to cease operation, after a cancer-causing toxin was found in his cooking oil. this oil processing company.

'These three companies are a place to produce peanut oil products containing aflatoxine, a poison caused by mold, with very high levels'.

'This is also the toxin found in dairy products of Mengniu Dairy Group on December 26,' wrote Xinhua news agency .

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), aflatoxine increases the risk of liver cancer.

For many years, serious food scandals in China have been happening continuously: recycled waste oil, eggs and fruits are dyed with toxic colors, fungi that cause cancer, tofu or liqueur .

The most serious food scandal known as milk contaminated with melamine was discovered in 2008, killing 6 children and making about 300,000 people sick.