You’re saying pharmaceutical companies are such penny pinchers and use so much oil in a capsule or tablet, that it would make it worth the while to use “premium” recycled frying oil versus buying virgin, consumer kitchen grade food oils? Maybe it’s green but it’s also yuck.
I'm not the only one saying it. It was in the article if you click through.
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You’re saying pharmaceutical companies are such penny pinchers and use so much oil in a capsule or tablet, that it would make it worth the while to use “premium” recycled frying oil versus buying virgin, consumer kitchen grade food oils? Maybe it’s green but it’s also yuck.
From the Article:Mostly I'm just repeating what I've read (and not just on this article).
That raises demand for used cooking oil, which renderers recycle into a yellow grease used for animal feed, pharmaceutical products and the production of biodiesel.
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Making biodiesel doesn't even require the really "clean" stuff that renderers sell to pharmaceutical companies to make such products as gel capsules for medicines, for example …