McDonald’s halts sale of chicken nuggets in HK
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MCDONALD’S Corp has suspended sales of chicken nuggets and other items in Hong Kong after it said it imported products from Shanghai Husi Food, the United States-owned Chinese company at the center of a food safety scare.
The company said it imported certain products from Shanghai Husi between July last year and June this year, although no food items from the supplier remained in stock.
In Japan, McDonald’s Holdings Co (Japan) said yesterday it will halt all imports of chicken products from China and shift that business to Thailand, boosting purchases from existing suppliers McKey Foods Services (Thailand).
Last year, Thailand supplied 62 percent of McDonald’s Japan’s chicken product imports and China the rest.
The food scandal broke when a Shanghai TV news report on Sunday showed workers at Shanghai Husi Food using out-of-date meat and picking up food from the floor to add back into the mix.
The fast-food company said in Hong Kong it also had halted sales of McSpicy chicken filets, chicken and green salads, fresh corn cups and iced lemon tea.
It said it had stopped using the following ingredients from another branch, Guangzhou Husi: lettuce, corn kernels, lemon slices, green salad, cucumber, onion and tomato.
The announcement came after Hong Kong said it had suspended all imports from Shanghai Husi Food, which is owned by US-based OSI Group.
Hong Kong’s Center for Food Safety said late on Thursday that any food products from Husi already imported into the city would be marked, sealed and banned from sale, pending the results of investigations by Chinese authorities.
The food safety scare has also ensnared Yum Brands Inc, which has told all of its KFC and Pizza Hut outlets to seal up and stop using all meat materials supplied by the Husi factory.
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