Want China Times, Staff Reporter 2014-07-23
An inspector with the Shanghai Municipal Food and Drug Administration seals a Shanghai Husi Food computer, July 22. (Photo/Xinhua) |
After
revelations emerged on July 20 that Shanghai Husi Food had reprocessed expired
meat to sell to fast food chains in China, the company has now been found to
have exported re-processed expired chicken to Japan, reported our Chinese
language sister newspaper China Times.
Fast food
companies in Japan such as MacDonald's, KFC, and Starbucks have all been
affected by the expired meat.
Radio and
Television Shanghai reported that Shanghai Husi, the Chinese unit of the US OSI
Group, mixed fresh chicken with expired chicken and successfully fooled the
quality control department at McDonald's.
Husi closed
its factory on July 20, and the Shanghai Municipal Food and Drug Administration
seized all the meat therein.
According
to the English-language Shanghai Daily, in addition to McDonald's, KFC, and
Starbucks, other food chains in Japan like Burger King, Papa John's Pizza,
Subway, and Pizza Hut imported meat products from Husi as well.
McDonald's
Japan said that 20% of its chickens is imported from Husi. About 500 branches
in Kanto region were affected and stopped selling chicken nuggets. McDonald's
Japan is looking for a new source of chicken and will start selling chicken
nuggets again no later than July 23.
McDonald's
had originally been scheduled to hold a press conference on July 23 to launch new
summer products, with singers from a popular singing competition show scheduled
to attend, however, the press conference was cancelled on the evening of July
22.
Incidents
of adulterated foods have rocked consumer confidence in China over the last couple
of years. Earlier this year, the US retailer Walmart's supermarket in China was
found to have used fox meat labelled as donkey meat. Walmart subsequently
announced that it would strengthen its quality inspection on Chinese food
suppliers. The Husi incident may have a similar effect in Japan.
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