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



Posted by Jawwad Kazi on 4th Mar 2019