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Rule on reuse of cooking oil
Why in news?
- FSSAI recent directive prohibiting Food Business Operators (FBOs), from reusing cooking oil more than three times has not being implemented well in Karnataka.
More in news
- Karnataka is the first State to have a Bio Energy Development Board.
- Re-used cooking oil is being collected from big chains of restaurants.
Challenges:
- Main issue is regarding the registration of units.
- Empanelment: Without it many aggregators are finding it difficult to collect used cooking oil from hotel chains.
About RUCO
Repurpose Used Cooking Oil (RUCO)
- UCO poses adverse health effects. During frying, Total Polar Compounds(TPC) are formed on repeated frying.
- TPC is responsible for diseases such as hypertension, atherosclerosis, Alzheimer’s disease, liver diseases.
- Therefore, it is essential to monitor the quality of vegetable oils during frying.
- FSSAI has fixed a limit for Total Polar Compounds at 25 percent beyond which the vegetable oil shall not be used.
- RUCO is an ecosystem that will enable the collection and conversion of UCO to biodiesel.
source
The Hindu