Zhu Chuanfeng () was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve in China for selling gutter oil, an illegal and poisonous food and cooking oil. Moreover, Zhu's brothers Zhu Chuanqing (朱传清) and Zhu Chuanbo (朱传波) were sentenced to life in prison. Seven others involved in the case (Du Hengqiang, Du Hengcai, Zhu Hongtao, Jiang Weidong, Zhu Chuanguo, Liu Xingshan, and Liu Hengliang) were given prison terms and fined as well. Background In 2001, the three brothers Zhu Chuanfeng, Zhu Chuanqing, and Zhu Chuanbo invested in an oil plant under the pretense of selling animal oil. In 2006, they began producing swill oil (泔水油) and gutter oil and marketed them as cooking oil, selling it for people to eat. Gutter oil is illegal and made by recycling kitchen oil and reprocessing waste oil, sometimes even using restaurant leftovers. It is dirty oil that contains carcinogens and is poisonous when consumed. The Zhu brothers illegally sold the poisonous oil for people to consume to 17 dealers in Shanxi and Shandong and made 52.4 million yuan ($8.6 million) in revenue. Company In 2009, the Zhu brothers established the Developed Oil Co., Ltd. (发达油脂工业有限公司). Zhu Chuanfeng was in charge of the overall work of the company, Zhu Chuanqing was in charge of the salesmen, and was responsible for the procurement of raw materials and product sales, and Zhu Chuanbo was in charge of product sales and company finance. Zhu Chuanqing's brother-in-law Du Hengqiang (杜恒强) joined the company in 2003 and was in charge of production management from 2007. In 2006, Jiang Weidong (蒋卫东) joined the company as the director of the west workshop, mainly in charge of equipment maintenance. Du Hengcai (杜恒才), Zhu Chuanguo (朱传国), and Liu Xingshan (刘兴善) successively worked as salesmen in the company during the Spring Festivals in 2003, 2006, and 2009. They were responsible for the purchase of "swill oil" and the promotion of gutter oil. In March 2008, Zhu Hongtao (朱洪涛) joined the company and was responsible for unloading "swill oil" and filling "waste oil". In October 2010, Liu Hengliang (刘恒亮) joined the company and was responsible for weighing and collecting oil payments in the western workshop. Business operation A villager once described the Zhu brothers' waste oil industry chain as follows: a trailer with a length of 20 to 30 meters transporting waste oil raw materials from other places is full of diesel barrels, and there can be