Recycled cooking oil sold as new in Malaysia

The cooking oil that you buy at a Malaysian grocery store or a supermarket near you in a 1kg packet may have been recycled.



The Malaysian Association of Standards Users sent the samples for 'polar compound testing' to Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, which found all 19 brands falling short of international standards, its chief executive officer Ratna Devi Nadarajan said.

Manufacturers are believed to have bought the oil used in restaurants through middlemen and processed it for resale. Tests conducted on the 'cheap' oil revealed that repeated exposure to high temperatures had made it unfit for human consumption.

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