July 22, 2014

Shanghai city officials have shut Shanghai Husi Food Co. factory and seized products which allegedly used expired meat from the supplier of fast-food restaurants including McDonald's and KFC, the Shanghai food and drug administration said on Monday.

Shanghai television, which reported the original allegations, showed footage of workers at the plant picking up meat and hamburger patties from the floor before putting them back into processing machinery for reprocessing and packaging as fresh chicken meat.

OSI Group apologised to its customers and said it was "appalled" by the report on its factory, adding that it was "dealing with the issue directly and quickly" in a statement posted on its Chinese website. The company has formed an investigation team, is fully cooperating with inspections being conducted by relevant, supervising government agencies, and is also conducting its own internal review.