Cooking Oil Scandal: Only 2 Trucks Contaminated, Gov’t Says

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Chinese investigators confirmed that two truckloads of cooking oil had been contaminated with fuel but found no evidence of an industry-wide problem. Chinese authorities sought to draw a line under one of the country’s largest food safety scandals in years on Sunday, after publishing the results of an official investigation into allegations that large amounts of cooking oil had been contaminated with fuel during transportation. A report issued by the Food Safety Office under China’s State Council said investigators had confirmed that two truckloads of oil had indeed been exposed to fuel, as media outlet Beijing News claimed in its original story that ignited the scandal in early July. But the report added that a thorough probe into the cooking oil supply chain had so far found no evidence of a systemic problem with regard to safety standards in the trucking industry. According to the report, officials have managed to trace all of the roughly 70 tons of contaminated oil transported ………………………………