Products of Chinese meat supplier to KFC, McDonald's yanked off shelves

Beijing: Food and drug authorities inShanghai, China’s largest city, today ordered all meatproducts supplied by a local firm to McDonald’s and KFCoutlets to be taken off shelf due to safety concerns.

Local media in Shanghai reported that Shanghai Husi FoodCompany reprocessed meat products that had outlived theirshelf life and supplied them to transnational fast-food chainsincluding McDonald’s, KFC and Pizza Hut.

Reporters who managed to enter Husi workshops said theysaw clear evidence that stale beef and chicken were repackagedafter processing and their shelf life was prolonged foranother year, state-run Xinhua news agency reported.

Shanghai’s food and drug authority has launched aninvestigation, and demanded all the suspected meat products betaken off shelf.

Shanghai Husi Food, a member of the American OSI Group,was founded in 1996.

It has two production lines, one for chicken and theother for beef and pork.

PTI