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McDonald's to source poultry from Henan Husi Food in wake of scandal
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US fast-food chain McDonald's said it will stop the supplier contract with Shanghai Husi Food after Husi’s Jiading-based factory was found using expired meat in a scandal affecting at least a dozen fast-food companies.
McDonald's China said in an email statement today that it will move its sourcing of poultry raw material to Henan Husi Food, a newly established manufacturing site wholly owned by US-based OSI Group. McDonald's said it's reviewing its quality-management system for Chinese suppliers and is dedicated to resolving food-safety issues.
Sheldon Lavin, OSI Group chairman, chief executive officer and owner, said in a statement that the company "will make sure that (what happened at the Shanghai factory) never happens again."
The company said it has sent the best team of global experts from its headquarters to work with the local team.
"What happened in Shanghai Husi is completely unacceptable and was terribly wrong," according to a statement on the company's official website.
McDonald’s followed Yum Brands Inc, owner of KFC and Pizza Hut, which said yesterday it had stopped all procurement from Husi China and will re-evaluate its supervision and management system for suppliers.
Provincial food and drug administrative authorities have carried out inspections at OSI's facilities in Yunnan, Shandong and Hebei provinces and haven't found similar wrongdoings at these facilities.
OSI Group's Henan facility was launched in October last year, with poultry-processing and other meat-processing lines, with an annual capability of 180,000 tons of prepared food. It has a staff of 120.
On Tuesday, Shanghai's Food and Drug Administration announced that after reviewing the records of Shanghai Husi Food Co and searching its warehouses, more than 5,000 boxes of expired meat had been stored and sold to major American fast-food chains such as KFC and McDonald's.
Shanghai Television Station's evening newscast reported on Sunday that Husi had been mixing expired meat with fresh cuts and lying to McDonald’s inspectors by keeping fake production logs.
"Fast-food chains like McDonald's and KFC apparently didn't have enough time to find another qualified supplier soon enough, and Husi has such a large scale that it could easily affect a large number of downstream fast-food chains and restaurants," said Zhong Kai, a deputy researcher at the China National Center for Food Safety Risk Assessment, commenting on McDonald's choice of another branch of Husi Foods as its new supplier.
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