Want China Times, Staff Reporter 2014-07-26
The Shanghai Husi expired meat scandal has highlighted the low health food safety standards and regulations its parent company employs in China compared to other parts of the world, reports our Chinese-language sister paper Want Daily.
McDonald's has declared that it is cutting all ties with Shanghai Husi as a supplier. (Photo/CNS) |
The Shanghai Husi expired meat scandal has highlighted the low health food safety standards and regulations its parent company employs in China compared to other parts of the world, reports our Chinese-language sister paper Want Daily.
Owned by
Illinois-based OSI Group, Husi has been shut down by Chinese food authorities
pending an investigation after it was discovered that the company had been
supplying products tainted with reprocessed stale meat to fast food chains
across the country such as McDonald's, KFC, Pizza Hut, Burger King and Dicos.
The OSI
Group operates more than 50 food processing plants in 17 countries and
distributes raw, semi-cooked, and fully cooked chicken, as well as beef, and
pork products to 85 countries around the world.
According
to a report by the Xinhua Daily, a Chinese-language newspaper operated by the
Jiangsu committee of the Communist Party, the scandal reflects the different
food safety standards OSI applies in China compared to the US and Europe.
In the US
and Spain, for example, OSI uses X-rays to detect foreign objects in food
products. The group also implements employee safety programs in Spain, where
there are training workshops on emergency treatment for staff accidents. The
group has no similar programs or safety nets in China.
OSI also
has standardized animal welfare guidelines, and chemical and pesticide
specifications in the US, Europe, the Philippines and India, but not in China.
In the
environmental responsibility sphere, OSI has installed water, energy and waste
recycling processes in other countries, but in Chinese factories there are only
water recycling devices in place.
Sheldon
Lavin, OSI's CEO, chairperson and owner, once boasted about OSI's unique
culture, saying it is "very family-oriented" and enjoys very little
"turnover." The newspaper report said that it is probably this type
of trusting management style that led to different standards being applied in
different countries, allowing subsidiaries like Husi to fall through the
cracks.
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