Hohhot's new move to curb the flow of waste oil to the dining table

Abandoned edible oils and fats are animal and vegetable oils and fats that can no longer be eaten in the production and business activities of the food and beverage industry and the food processing industry. They include fried old oil, hot pot oil, swill oil, and waste oil. It is understood that an average of 7 tons of waste edible oils and fats are produced every day in Hohhot. If such a quantity of waste oil is not strictly managed, it will bring great harm to the environment and human health. Recently, the two departments of the Hohhot Health Bureau in Inner Mongolia and the Hohhot Environmental Protection Bureau jointly launched a heavy blow to curb the backflow of waste oil from the source.

Kitchen waste and cooking oil must not be disposed of at will

In order to strengthen the management of waste edible oils and fats and kitchen wastes in Hohhot, prevent and control the environmental pollution caused by discarded edible oils and food and kitchen wastes, and prevent waste oil from flowing into catering service units, the Health Bureau of Hohhot and the Environmental Protection Bureau jointly issued documents on September 3. , Manage kitchen waste and waste oil management.

According to reports, the principle of centralized collection and unified processing is implemented for restaurant kitchen waste and cooking oil in Hohhot. Any unit or individual is obliged to make complaints and reports on the behaviors that cause obsolete edible oils and fats to pollute the environment and waste oil flowing into catering service units. .

The restaurant kitchen waste and cooking oil produced by each catering unit must sign a centralized collection and disposal agreement with qualified fixed-site kitchen waste disposal units and fixed-point waste oil collection processing and disposal units. The waste oil generated during the process of restaurant kitchen waste disposal and waste oil collection and processing must be approved by Hohhot Waste Oil Management Office before being sold. Health supervision agencies at all levels shall supervise whether the catering units sign recycling agreements with restaurant kitchen waste disposal units with legal qualifications and waste oil collection processing and disposal units in daily supervision work, and establish a ledger account, and discover that the illegal recycling activities should be promptly notified to the environment. Protection department.

In addition, the restaurant kitchen waste disposal unit and the waste oil collection processing and disposal unit, after collecting food waste and cooking oil, must issue a “recycling list” to the catering unit, and indicate the date and weight of the collection. For wasteful recycling of kitchen wastes and waste oils in violation of relevant regulations concerning the management of discarded edible oils and fats, the Hohhot Waste Oil Management Office will impose administrative penalties in accordance with the relevant provisions of the “Administrative Regulations on Waste Edible Oils and Fats in Hohhot”.

Multi-sector joint rectification

In order to conscientiously implement the "Opinions on Strengthening the Management of Waste Oil and the Management of Kitchen Waste" of the General Office of the State Council, we have fully standardized the disposal of kitchen wastes and severely cracked down on illegal acquisition, processing, sales, and illegal use of cooking oil. Hohhot Food Products The safety committee has formulated the “Special Work Plan for Rehabilitation of Waste Oil and Kitchen Waste in Hohhot”, and the time limit for rectification is from August 16 to September 30. The plan clearly stipulates that the agricultural and animal husbandry departments must strengthen the management of pig farms and farmers, and strictly prohibit the rearing of pigs. The quality supervision department must strengthen the supervision of food production and processing, and require the food production and processing units to seriously implement the inspection and inspection of the food. The certification and ticketing system severely cracks down on the use of waste oil production and processing food by food production and processing units, and cooperates with environmental protection agencies to supervise food production and processing units that produce discarded edible oils and fats, strengthen the management of discarded edible oils and fats, and require the production of discarded edible oils and fats. The food production and processing unit and the fixed-point collection and processing unit signed a recycling agreement to prevent the flow of waste edible oils and fats into the black dens of the waste oil for processing and processing; the industrial and commercial departments must increase supervision and spot checks, strictly implement the procurement inspection and claim verification system, and crack down on operating trenches. The actions of oil and non-formal sources of edible oil; the environmental protection department strengthens the supervision and management of the production and discharge units of waste edible oils and fats and the collection and processing units, requires the establishment of restaurant kitchen waste, and establishes a management system for collection units; it is strictly prohibited that waste edible oil and grease collection and processing units will Trench Sales to food production and business enterprises and individual industrial and commercial households and food service units. All departments should be divided according to their responsibilities. Each flag county must establish a responsibility system for the county and county chiefs responsible for special rectification of waste oil and food waste. Focusing on the urban and rural junctions and the suburban areas of the city, we should carefully investigate and clean up illegal production of waste oil. Black dens, to find out the source of raw materials and sales channels, to trace down the problems found, to ban the black dens; to focus on the bazaars, wholesale markets, etc., to severely investigate and deal with counterfeit and unclear edible oils the behavior of. Strictly prevent waste oil from flowing into food production and operation units. Focusing on catering industries such as cities and tourist attractions as key areas, food production workshops, small restaurants, stalls, and hotpot restaurants will be the main targets, and purchase records of edible oils and ticket inspections will be strengthened. The food production and operation units that use cooking oil are ordered to suspend production, stop business, and rectify the business until the licenses are revoked and the suspected crimes are transferred to the judicial organs according to law.

Waste oil destined for strict approval

On September 17, the reporter went to Hohhot Lianfa Waste Oil Co., Ltd. According to reports, the company is the only company in Huhhot that has a full license to use waste oil. "The waste edible oil and fat collection and processing enterprises not only set up a complete production and sales account and records, but also used the extracted cooking oil and the collected old oil and hot pot oil for the production materials of downstream enterprises, and further deep processing and utilization." Zhang Wenjun, Deputy Director of the Waste Oil Management Office in Hohhot said. At the desk of Liu Wenlin, director of the Waste Oil Management Office in Hohhot, the reporter saw a “Dealing Approval Form for Waste Oil Sales in Hohhot”. Liu Wenlin said that the current sale of waste oil in the capital is subject to the approval sales system, which cannot be sold without approval.

Workers engaged in the recovery of waste oil are all affiliated with the waste oil clearance certificate issued by the environmental protection department. According to a retired person named Wang, the fate of waste oil was strictly examined and verified in the course of business operations. Liu Wenlin told reporters that there was a matching process record for the whereabouts of waste oil in each barrel, and there was one copy of the clean-up staff and waste oil management office.

At present, relevant departments are sending notices to the capital restaurant companies. According to the “Honoring of Collecting and Disposal of Trench Oils in Hohhot”, the catering company shall not return the produced cooking oil to unqualified units or unlicensed personnel from the date of signing of the agreement, and provide waste oil without authorization Any collected by a qualified unit or individual is responsible for the consequences.

On September 17, the Hygiene Supervision Bureau of the Health Bureau of Hohhot conducted supervision and inspection of the health and safety status of some catering units in the urban area. One of them was the treatment of waste oil. During the inspection process, catering units can provide agreements with waste oil recycling companies. The person in charge of a hotel on Xilinguole North Road said: “In the past, there were many restaurants that put waste oil directly in the sewers. This not only polluted the environment, but also provided the conditions for criminals to extract waste oil. Now, the waste oil is designated by the relevant departments. Enterprises to recycle, this measure not only solves the problem of difficult discharge of waste oil from catering units, but also effectively prevents waste oil from being processed into waste oil.” It is understood that the capital department of the capital attaches great importance to the establishment and implementation of food raw materials for catering service units. The supervision of the procurement inspection and cable verification system strictly cracks down on the purchase and use of cooking oil from informal sources.

Waste grease turning waste into treasure

According to reports, there are currently more than 1,000 catering, meat, and food processing companies in Hohhot that have reached a certain scale of operation. After years of supervision and guidance from the Hohhot Office of Waste Edible Oil Management, oil-insulated devices have been installed. The old oil and hot-pot oil are fried and most of the oil separated by the oil-separating device can be uniformly recovered for refining and further processed and utilized.

Waste oils are not useless and can be turned into waste after rational use. The reporter learned that Hohhot City Lianfa Waste Oil Co., Ltd. will be processed and refined from waste oil recovered from restaurants and restaurants, and will become a waste oil product. After deep processing of processed waste oil products, Can become such as oleic acid, stearic acid, fatty acids and other chemical raw materials. According to relevant personnel research, this practice of turning waste into treasure is currently still in a leading position in the country.