To prevent the misuse of unsafe, used cooking oil (UCO) in the State, Punjab Government has decided to collected it from the restaurants, hotels and other food establishments and convert into biodiesel.
Informing this, the State Food and Drug Administration Commissioner KS Pannu on Friday said that when the cooking oil is used more than twice or thrice for frying, the trans fats are produced to a detrimental level which are unsafe for human health.
“So, as per the directions of the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI), under the Repurpose Used Cooking Oil (RUCO) campaign, collection and conversion of used cooking oil (UCO) into biofuel has been initiated,” he said.
Pannu said that Northern Biofuels Private Limited, Mohali, has been authorised for UCO collection on the condition that the collected used cooking oil will only be used for the production of biodiesel.
Besides, the price of used cooking oil will be fixed by mutual agreement with the respective entities, he said adding that the Company has been directed to give a monthly statement to the Commissionerate detailing the oil collected from each district.
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