"China suspends McDonald's and KFC's meat supplier", 21 Jul 2014

Chinese branches of fast food chains, including McDonald's and KFC, have stopped using meat from a supplier in Shanghai following allegations it sold them out of date meat. According to Xinhua...news agency, authorities in Shanghai have ordered the suspension of operations at Shanghai Husi Food Co. Reports by local media said that Husi had re-processed expired meat products. McDonald's and KFC said they had stopped using meat from Husi...Shanghai Husi is the Chinese unit of US-based food supplier OSI Group...Yum China manages the KFC and Pizza Hut chains and its sales have been hit by recent health scares. Yum's sales dipped after a report in 2012 said two of its suppliers were providing chickens with excessive levels of antibiotics...Speaking to Reuters a spokesperson for McDonald's in China said: "If proven, the practices outlined in the reports are completely unacceptable to McDonald's anywhere in the world"...