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China shuts meat producer supplying McDonald's, KFC

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Yum, McDonald's in Shanghai food safety investigation
SHANGHAI - Shanghai has shut a factory of US food provider OSI Group for selling out-of-date meat to restaurant giants including McDonald's and KFC, authorities said Monday, in China's latest food safety scandal.

A Shanghai television channel, which reported the original allegations, said that workers at the plant mixed expired meat with the fresh product and deliberately misled quality inspectors from McDonald's.

City officials closed the Shanghai Husi Food Co. factory on Sunday and seized products which allegedly used the expired meat, the Shanghai food and drug administration said in a statement.

Police were investigating, it said, threatening "severe punishment" in future.

Television footage showed workers in white suits picking up meat and hamburger patties from the floor before putting them back into processing machinery, and one employee handling out-of-date beef and calling it "stinky meat".

McDonald's said in a statement it had "immediately" stopped using the factory's products while restaurant operator Yum separately said its KFC and Pizza Hut establishments had also halted use of its meat.

KFC has faced food safety issues in China before, when authorities found excessive levels of antibiotics in chicken it sourced from local suppliers in 2012.

Other customers of Husi Food included Burger King, Papa John's Pizza and coffee chain Starbucks, the Shanghai Daily newspaper reported Monday.

Furniture maker Ikea, which had been named by Chinese media as serving the factory's meat at in-store restaurants, said it stopped using the company's products last year, and sandwich maker Subway also denied it uses meat from the firm.

China has been rocked by a series of food and product safety problems, due to lax enforcement of regulations and corner-cutting by producers.

One of the worst occurred in 2008 when the industrial chemical melamine was found to have been illegally added to dairy products, killing at least six babies and making 300,000 people ill.

US retail giant Walmart said early this year that it would tighten inspections of its suppliers in China after it was forced to recall donkey meat products that had been found to contain fox.

Last year, China detained hundreds of people for food safety crimes, including selling rat and fox meat disguised as beef and mutton, following a three-month crackdown, police said.
 

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This what happens when a foreign MNC thinks that another is doing the proper inspection and relax their own.
 

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later a grass eater will come to say if you eat grass you won't have this kind of problem

:oIo:
 

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McDonald's, KFC launch probe after China supplier 'used rotten meat in fast-food products'


Mainland fast-food giants used supplies from Shanghai plant, but not in Hong Kong outlets

PUBLISHED : Monday, 21 July, 2014, 10:11am
UPDATED : Tuesday, 22 July, 2014, 2:35am

Patrick Boehler
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Staff seal off a storehouse at the now-closed Shanghai Husi Food Company plant. Photo: Xinhua

More mainland fast-food chains have said they sourced food from a Shanghai factory shut by authorities amid allegations of using rotten meat.

But the affected chains - including McDonald's, Pizza Hut and KFC - all said that none of their Hong Kong outlets used meat from the factory.

Mainland fast-food chain Dicos yesterday said it had taken breakfast sandwiches off its menu because its ham had been sourced from Shanghai Husi Food Company.

Swedish retailer Ikea also said it had bought chicken meat for its mainland branches from the factory between September 2012 and August last year.

Shanghai food authorities on Sunday shut the factory, owned by a US-based company, as it investigates allegations that Husi falsified the expiry date on some of the meat products sold to international chains McDonald's, KFC and Pizza Hut.

The move followed a news report on Shanghai's Dragon TV exposing the malpractice at the factory. The report showed an e-mail from management, which allegedly asked employees to extend the expiry date of 10 tonnes of frozen beef. The meat, reportedly already green and odorous, was reprocessed, refrozen and repackaged with a new expiry date, the report alleged.

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An officer seals off a computer at Shanghai Husi Food Company. Photo: Xinhua

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Screenshot from the Dragon TV report on Shanghai Husi Food Company.

The report featured footage showing staff picking up food from the floor and throwing it into processing machines. Discarded Chicken McNuggets, a McDonald's staple, could be seen being reprocessed until they passed inspection. The report indicated that clients did not know about the practices.

McDonald's and Yum Brands, owner of the KFC and Pizza Hut franchises, reacted by saying they had stopped sourcing meat from Husi and had started investigations. Both companies apologised, and said their mainland restaurants could now face a shortage of certain products.

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Workers have nothing to do at the workshop of Shanghai Husi Food Company. Photo: Xinhua

Yum Brands identified its sausage and egg burger and a "spicy roasted burger" as being affected. McDonald's did not specify any products.

Husi's parent company, the Illinois-based OSI Group, apologised, saying it had formed an investigation team and was fully cooperating with inspections conducted by the authorities.

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Screenshot from the Dragon TV report on Shanghai Husi Food Company.

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Screenshot from the Dragon TV report on Shanghai Husi Food Company.

"Our ... management believes this to be an isolated event, but takes full responsibility for the situation and will take appropriate actions swiftly and comprehensively," its statement said.

The China Food and Drug Administration has launched an investigation into the company.

Xinhua said administration investigators visited the processing facility in Shanghai's Jiading district on Sunday evening, but were stopped by security guards until police arrived.

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Shanghai Husi Food Company supplied restaurants including KFC. Photo: Reuters

The agency said it had since closed the processing facility and seized suspected raw food items. It ordered clients to take the factory's products off their shelves.

The factory was licensed to export to Hong Kong and Japan, its website said. The Centre for Food Safety said it had no record of any meat imports from the Shanghai factory to Hong Kong.

A spokeswoman for McDonald's Hong Kong said it did not receive any products from Husi Shanghai but had been using meat supplied by OSI group branches outside Shanghai.

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Chicken nuggets production line at the Husi plant. Photo: Reuters

KFC and Pizza Hut told media that they did not use any products from the factory in question.

The Shanghai factory processed 25,000 tonnes of food annually. It received a food safety award from Jiading district this year.

OSI, which has close to 60 manufacturing facilities worldwide and had revenue of over US$5 billion in 2012, has been supplying McDonald's in China since 1992 and Yum since 2008.

McDonald's has about 2,000 restaurants in China. Yum has 6,200 branches in China, while Ikea has 16 stores.

Additional reporting by Shirley Zhao and Reuters

 

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... McDonald's said in a statement it had "immediately" stopped using the factory's products while restaurant operator Yum separately said its KFC and Pizza Hut establishments had also halted use of its meat ...
@ least dey r honest enuff 2 say dey haf been using, but stopped now ... very much unlike a world crass, world bestest, world lumpar 1 coy who tried 2 deceive by saying their planes were not flying over ukraine ...
 

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They are out to nail away and ruin USA food consumer business, they exposed high level had been sydicated in the LONG TERM SUPPLY of unhealthy rotten food with UNSAFE QUALITY, all INSTRUCTED BY TOP MANAGEMENT

http://news.xinhuanet.com/photo/2014-07/22/c_126783166.htm

福喜工厂质量负责人:使用过期原料是工厂高层授意

2014年07月22日 12:24:29 | 责任编辑: 马俊卿 | 来源: 新华网综合

  据《东方卫视》报道,从7月21日中午开始,调查人员对福喜工厂的相关负责人进行了约谈。工厂质量部经理表示,对于过期原料的使用,是工厂高层直接授意,公司多年来政策一贯如此。据其向调查人员反映,这样的行为至少需要厂长以上的领导同意,像牛肉饼这种一直有生产的产品可以直接添加次品材料。当被问及这种行为从何时开始时,该负责人称不记得了。

  在福喜公司的一份客户名单上,记者看到,3张A4纸上共记录着近150家企业,包括麦当劳、肯德基、星巴克、宜家等等,覆盖北京、上海、广州、天津、浙江、福建、广东等20多个省市,目前上海食药监局已经联系国家质检总局,请各家企业进行自我排查。(中国广播网)




Bsiacally consumers in 1.2 billion population and the rest of world learned that USA fast food systematically sells unfit for food safety poor quality and unlawful food.
 

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Police hold 5 Husi employees

Shanghai Daily, July 24, 2014

Five employees of Shanghai Husi Food Co who were implicated in the meat scandal were detained yesterday.

The quintet includes the company's top executive and its quality manager, the Shanghai public security bureau said in a statement. It did not elaborate.

Zhang Hui, manager of Husi's quality department, told investigators earlier that the company has been repackaging and selling out-of-date meat for many years.

 
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