KOMPAS.com – Fake fake can be seen from the packaging, smell, and color. Pay attention to these things before buying the subsidized cooking oil.
The reason, recently, the police arrested fake oil producers containing bulk cooking oil with less volume and expensive prices, which were circulated to the Greater Jakarta area.
The bulk oil warehouse is located in Bogor Regency, West Java.
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The perpetrators sell fake oil for Rp. 15,600 per liter, which should be Rp. 13,500 per liter.
More, see how to distinguish the following original and fake oil.
1. Look at the color
The color of the original oil is clear and clear, while fake oil tends to be darker because it comes from bulk oil, as quoted from Medan TribuneWednesday (12/3/2025).
2. Pay attention to the details of the packaging
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Fake oil packaging is not in accordance with the provisions of the Ministry of Trade (Ministry of Trade).
Quoted from Kompas.comBogor Police Chief AKBP Rio Wahyu Anggoro said that fake oil packaging was not equipped with net weight information and BPOM distribution permit.
3. Kiss the aroma
If you already buy, you can make sure the oil is through the aroma of oil.
Illustration of fake oil packaging and does not match the dose. Oil packaging that is checked by Banyuwangi Diskopumdag, Monday (10/3/2025). Fake fake stinging and leading to the rancid odor, while the original oil is not the case.
4. Recognize the correct writing of oil
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Original subsidized cooking oil from the government labeled “oil” is not “our oil”.
The cooking oil counterfeiters changed the name of the oil to our oil on the plastic and bottle packaging labels.
5. The price of fake oil is more expensive
Oil is inaugurated to help overcome the high price of cooking oil on the market, so the selling price is relatively cheap.
Original oil is sold at the highest retail price (HET) from the Ministry of Trade of Rp. 15,700 per liter.
Conversely, the price of fake oil is priced at more than Rp 16,000 per liter, even though the dose is not up to one liter.
6. See deposits
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Fake fake can contain deposits or particles that can be seen from outside the package.
You can make sure this before buying it.
As for the original oil should not have deposits like fake products.
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