The peanut oil mill in the agricultural market uses peanut fields to extract oil. Videoshot
In guangxizhou and guangdong zhangqing, journalists have seen the presence of peanut oil mills in many agricultural markets. However, these adulterated peanut oils have been tested as having a severe excess of acetacin, with a toxicity equivalent to 68 times that of crane top red and 10 times that of potassium cyanide, which is a carcinogen。
The peanut oil is mixed with aroma
Journalists in the wholesale market in guangxi county have seen five peanut oil workshops in just one street. The workshop included a set of oil-grabbing equipment which could be used to extract oil from peanuts on site. These workshops not only attract customers with fresh and pure peanut oil, but also at lower prices than regular oil plants, with fairly good business. Journalists visited more than 20 oil workshops in guangxizhou and guangdong zhangqing and found that the “pure” peanut oil was 8 pounds low, 16 dollars high and, generally, 10 pounds low。
A pound of peanut oil requires two and a half kilograms of peanuts, and the lowest price for the wholesale price of peanuts in zhongzhou and zhangqing is 4. 5, meaning that the price of pure peanut oil cannot be lower than 11. Following inquiries from journalists, the owner of the oil shop revealed that peanut oil was mixed with soybean oil, and soybean oil was usually offered at a wholesale price of about $5 per pound. In addition to soybean oil, some low-cost peanut oil is mixed with palm oil, which is less than $3 per pound lower than soybean oil. According to zhangqing, a palm oil sales owner, the percentage of palm oil mixed could be as high as 70 or 80 per cent, so that peanut oil costs less than $6. However, in order to reduce costs, an edible oil wholesaler revealed to the press that “48 pounds of palm oil in 50 barrels of oil and 2 pounds of pure peanut oil”
And in order not to affect the scent, the peanut oil mills also add fragrance to the fake peanut oil. A dealer who sells oil presses says, "the peanut oil is fragrance, three or four dollars a bottle, not much more."
The aroma toxin is seriously overrated
Journalists purchased a bottle of “pure” peanut oil at 19 agro-markets in guangxizhou and guangdong zhangqing, da tong, bam bay, xinlong, bi-song, emerging, yellow tong, huangsang, and shibong, and then sent the 19 items to guangdong for testing at the food cosmetic safety assessment centre. The results show that out of 19 oil workshops, only 3 are selling pure peanut oil, while the other 16 are mixed with other oils, or even with animal fats, which is up to 84 per cent. The tester also found that: “the three pure peanut oil samples have two aflatoxin samples that are over-standarded and overstated by three to four times, and are seriously over-standarded.”
Chen zhiyong, director of the food cosmetic safety assessment centre, guangdong, said that the toxin detected in the course of the test was a oxytocin b1, a very toxic substance. “there is a crane red in the martial arts novel, and people die when they eat. Aflatoxin is 68 times as toxic as crane top red and 10 times as potassium cyanide, a category of carcinogens and 4,000 times as carcinogenic as benzothylene. Long, small accumulations can cause liver damage.” the tester then found a b1 superscript in four other samples. This resulted in a failure rate of more than 31 per cent for acin b1 in 19 samples. According to focus interview
